If you build your own home page on Geocities or one of the other free page building sites, you might be lulled into thinking that that is the answer to all of your needs. It's platform neutral, accessible from anywhere and changes are immediately reflected. But have you ever noticed how all of the pages that people put on those sites tend to look the same? Or at least have the same level of quality?

Those tools work to the extent that they do for page-at-a-time authoring but lack facilities for defining a motif (not in the X library sense) and applying templates based on that motif. They lack any facility for relating one page to another.

A minor step up is slashdot software and the slash-alikes that provide tools for serial content posting and muli-user posting. Along similar lines is the service provided by blogger, weblogs have arisen as a medium unto themselves. But again, these tools don't provide any facilities for relating one published work to another; each piece of content is an island of its own.