>>>Can you recommend a tool or tools for developing a blog site? Part B, is a blog just a web site or is it fundamentally different in some ways? I think I can klutz out a web site using just HTML, CSS, classic ASP, and some JavaScript or jQuery, but maybe there is an easier/faster way.
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>>Why not use wordpress.If you've got some developemnt space somewhere then you could host it yourself.
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>I have a website that is hit by 4 different domain names I own and it costs me $5 a month. Wordpress is free and took about a minute to install.
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>The site includes SQL server databases I can access directly from my own SSMS.and runs all ASP .net etc.
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>http://www.winhost.com/

Please disregard the last question. I figured it out. wordpress.com is the web hosting site and wordpress.org is the web development tool site. I should post a blog entry about how confusing that is ;-)