Well, I finally got the new blog for Jon at Christian Challenge up. In the end I did end up using Wordpress. It was a close call, as both provide pretty much identical functionality. I have the feel for Nucleus down much better, I admit. Wordpress had three advantages, though: (1) out of the box it was (narrowly) closer in functionality and compatibility to what we needed (e.g. XHTML without chaning one thing), (2) it (as far as I can tell right now) cooperates with our established PHP includes, and (3) it has a much simpler intial setup, which meant I was able to get it working with our site much faster. As it is I actually don't have either one integrated right now, but it will be much simpler to get the Wordpress one fixed (I am pretty close). Mostly it was chance I had Wordpress up first. By the way, Nucleus does have a few things going for it: It has a much simpler page layout that lends itself to better integration with an existing design, and its functions return strings instead of printing out text - much easier to combine with an existing page, except for the whole lack of PHP integration. It is a shame that the initial design is so complicated - it isn't necessary. But I had to change a lot of HTML to get it to where I needed, and I had to change both "skins" and "templates." The split functionality of the two has some advantages, but it has a high cost for intial setup if you don't accept a default skin and template. Next step is to make the blog fit in with the rest of the site, instead of having a completely different appearance.
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