Blog integration

Question

I have two questions:

1. From personal experience, what free blog engine is the best to integrate a blog to an already designed website?

2. Since many blogs are using their own template tags, I wanted to know if there was an easier way to integrate a blog than having to learn those template tags? If there is not an alternate way of doing so or even a workaround, is there a better way that will allow me to have an head start so it can be done faster?

Answer 1

I'm not sure what your objection to Wordpress template tags is, but in my experience Wordpress is extremely extensible if you have some PHP knowledge and patience. It's also quite well documented. I'm not trying to be a smart alec about it -- but I think anything else you use is likely to be just as much work to dig into and understand.