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for a discussion board (sold separately). his is a very extensive and com-
plicated package, but on the other hand, it goes way beyond the basic idea
of blogging.
NucleusCMS
Moving from a more expensive package to another free one, we've got Nucle-
usCMS (nucleuscms.org). his sotware is more limited than pMachine's,
but ofers a variety of blogging features, including some nity features like
the ability to save entries as drats, the ability to write entries and post them
in the future (handy if you want to take a holiday but you want your blog to
keep updating), and a variety of available plug-ins.
Textpattern
Like NucleusCMS, Textpattern (textpattern.com) is free. It ofers a markup
language called Textile that is purported to be easier to use than HTML and
more reliable than WYSIWIG (What You See is What You Get) sites. Text-
pattern ofers the features that you'd expect in blogging sotware, includ-
ing some unique twists like the ability to password-protect site sections or
speciic pages, the ability to close pages ater a speciic period of time, and
more direct editing of CSS iles.
here's no doubt about it—blogs are really hot right now. And if you're pub-
lishing information that's best organized by date, blogs are a good choice.
But if you're looking for a way to set up an outline of information that gets
illed in over time, you might want to try a wiki instead. And though you
don't hear nearly as much about them as you do about blogs, there are plenty
of options out there for wikis as well. For simplicity's sake, you might want
to try one of the available hosted wiki options.
Wiki
As I've mentioned earlier in this chapter, wikis are best understood as con-
tainers for information—outlines that you can ill in with information as you
ind it. Blogs, on the other hand, are more vehicles for date-based entries and
commentary. And while some blogs allow you to break your entries down by
category, those category/entry listings are not usually that easy to read.
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