Blog creation - advice sought

[Mercury]

Seasons greetings to everyone.

I need to create an in-house blog for the students at my school to use for the beginning of February. The overriding instruction is that the web-based solution is to be hosted on our Intranet using our FM8 server, so using any of the various free external blogs is not an option.

I've written the hosted FMPro solution, but now I need to webify my solution. I've struggled with XSLT and sought help here in other posts and I'm now wondering if I'm on the right track.

i) Is XSLT the way to go? Should I turf this and aim for PHP? (Note that although I have many years of programming experience, that I'm a novice at both.)

ii) Is there a cheap, preferably a FMPro, solution that can be purchased?

Any other advice will be gratefully accepted.