I have never set up a blogging site before but would like to for one of the sites I manage. What I was hoping for was a template that would allow for a main blog but also space for comments. What I am trying to avoid is an entire list of comments clogging up the front page (maybe just a link to the comments?) and leaving that for the main person.

My first inclination was to simply use a yahoo group that way newsletters and the like would be emailed to the entire list. The owner has 700 emails he sends out at the beginning of the week and can only do 50 at a time and many times gets cut off and told to wait. My issue with the group setting though is that info will get lost among the comments.

Any recommendations on software, how I should begin, etc...? Please remember this is a first for me so I may ask to have some of the language dumbed down!

Thanks guys! You have been soooo much help already!