I checked out SquareSpace — nice web interface, but seems a little lacking in functionality.
Then Ottawa-based web guy Gesman pointed me to a WordPress design site specifically for magazines and news organizations.
This is EXACTLY what I was looking for - thanks, Gesman!
The designs are gorgeous and don’t look like blogs at all. I particularly love [...]

Today (well, it’s after midnight, so it was yesterday) I attended a Meetup of the Northampton Web Developers/ Web Designers Meetup Group.
Excellent, excellent meeting. Many web developers there — most looking like young, Silicon Valley Web 2.0 types. Mostly a male crowd, four Macs to one PC in terms of the laptop ratio.
The presenters [...]

I don’t know if anyone remembers this, but there used to be days… the days of BitNet… when using the Internet meant a command-line interface on a mainframe terminals.
Then there were the bulletin boards and their menu-driven interfaces. Anybody out there remember menus?
Between the bulletin boards and the World Wide Web, there was a transitional [...]