So glad to hear from you PugDog!

The blog isn't really new, it's just made more press lately. Companies have used weblogs a.k.a. blogs to keeping daily journals of their developmental progress, notes, etc. and then later picked up on by kids to post their daily diaries what have you. Some popular ones are the blogs owned by Microsoft employees. I'll PM you with my personal comments on it and what I think it can do for a commercial enterprise.

My interest this is... My visitors can open a Blog account which

• A) can give them an instant website with their first post (I know a homepage plug-in has been discussed in this forum).
• B) Ongoing posts with article archiving per User
• C) Ping posts over the web to other sites like Google, Blogger, Moveable Type etc.
• D) Entries can be syndicated by Admin and/or User to other related sites.

Here are some examples:

http://theredkitchen.net/ (this has multiple authors)

http://matrixessays.blogspot.com/ (notice the URL, envision that page with your preset links and ads at the top - aha!)

A Business Website could gain alot of traffic from this by numerous ways. I think it is worth working on. There are quite a few GPL products out there that can be hacked and integrated into GT products.


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As for the Content Management, I should say mini-CMS. There are way too many other systems out there better suited for that purpose (I like Typo3 and it's free) But again, not really set up for thousands of users in mind, unless you go hi-dollar, even then. So how about this...

Make a new table called Content, so there's links, reviews, users, categories and Content. Then modify the Content properties. or have Content 1, Content 2, Content 3 and have an option like press a button to duplicate the table again for Content 4 or 5 (yeah, LOL at that one) and create your customized columns from there. Then within each Content table you can have the option of a set of templates designed as you want already with the default tags. Then you have the possiblity to have a different look for each type of content or post

I see this site: http://www.pressbox.co.uk/index.html and they use Links as I would for content-not really linking outside the site at all. PugDog, my options now are to - like you say, add all these extra columns to the link record. It does seem like a lot to dump into one place.

Then the Front End ideally would A) user can choose from multiple template styles, B) Choose type of post from the three Content Tables C) Ideally, auto generate a subdomain for their template site D) Allow editing of post (uless locked by admin)

I'm not saying this (execept the Blog plug-in) can't be done by me, but it will be done by adding to the existing links table, that's the extent of my ability.

And Yes FLEXIBLE, I agree completely.