This is how the site looked most of my college days. It contained a very basic news blog, lots of content, but the whole site was contained in a single page and rendered client side. Obviously this wasn't the best of designs, so it takes forever to load. It did however use some basic PHP control based rendering from an XML specified site map.
This was the original design of joshuasmith.name. I liked the layout, but the navigation wasn't quite there. As such, there wasn't much on here - mostly just my resume.