# Online magazine help....

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 5, 2004, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-magazine-help/273194 "2004-11-05T15:42:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![jimdigritz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/91b2a8/32.png) [@jimdigritz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimdigritz)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-magazine-help/273194/1 "2004-11-05T15:42:26Z")

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Hi,

Am trying to help a friend set-up a small online magazine.

We have are the usual problems of limited time and capital.

The initial Proof of Concept would need to cost no more than a few hundred dollars for the first year (inc hosting etc)

Blog software would be almost perfectly suitable for our needs, especially pre-packaged hosted solutions like [Blogger.com](http://Blogger.com)

Problem.  
The problem with this approach is that we need to easily maintain articles in a side-by-side comparison style format. This goes against the standard ‘diary-entry’ chronological format of most blogs.

Whilst I have knocked up a few basic php/mySQL online databases and am comfy with HTML, the thought of trying to reinvent all of the standard blog features makes me think that an off-the shelf option might be best.

Obviously a custom site would need to be developed (outsourced) when/if the Proof of Concept works.

Any thoughts?  
James