Coranto is the next version of Newspro. Both were discontinued a while ago, but the former seems to have been revived. I’m not surprised, it’s an elegant blog solution: fast, easy to set up and use, and flexible. In concept it’s what I would program if I set out to write my own blog script. News is generated as a simple HTML file that you then include using SSI within another page of your own design.

I tried out Movable Type, which reminded me somewhat of Post Nuke, both being not what I was looking for. I probably could have spent a tremendous amount of time bending MT into doing what I needed, but it also took a tremendous amount of time to rebuild the news after just adding one post. The only benefit was that MT supported user comments, but I didn’t want to enable those on this main page, anyway. Movable Type is good if you want a full-featured blog right out of the box, and don’t want to impose much of your own site design on top of it. It won’t work very well for you if you already have a website and just want to add a news section into it.