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The subject says it all, is there a easier way to add first-page news to your site instead of opening the whole page in an editor and add the news? Also, how do you get the option to add comments? Thanks

well, you would have to use a blog software. I use Wordpress, which is PHP and MySQL based. but requires a server with htose technologies. For a free, HTML based version, you can use blogger, which can publish to any domain that has FTP access..

How customizeable is Blogger? Will I be able to add news something like Neowin (with a title, picture and then the text)? And is it possible to add a own layout?

EDIT: And I have PHP but not mySQL, is there any Blogs that only need that?

Also, some good PHP programs for the sort of thing can be found at http://www.fusionphp.org

Blogger isn't that versatile from what i've seen, because you're pinned down by storage on the blogger servers.  A php script like bblog is much better

CuteNews works great. It's php. Easy Setup and fully customizable.  It has an online admin so you just have to sign in, add news, save and there you go. http://cutephp.com/cutenews/

blogger can upload by FTP to any site. at least it used to.  and you can  edit the way everything is displayed.

most software are gonna need a database, as it is much faster and easier than a flat file system... find out if you have ANY database, as that is the most important thing.

Having said that, I love wordpress. its fast, simple, has a KICK ASS admin interface, and is being actively developed (bblog isn't)

I tried Blogger, works with FTP so all files are on my space. Looks pretty editeable, so I guess I might choose it. I'll try CuteNews and Bblog, too.  FusionNews didn't let me stay logged in in the admin panel

Looks like I won't try Bblog, needs mySQL.

EDIT: Okey, CuteNews is great and I'm now doing my site with it. One question: is there a way to get the avatar for the article cut to the text, or do I have to use the IMG tag when I post?

You may heve to use tables or what I did is I stuck my picture in a layer. So I just lined up my text to the right with a space big enough to the left to fit the picture.

Sounds intresting. Care to explain more in-detail?