Software for formatting / web-publishing tutorial-type, technical articles

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Published on 2012-04-04T10:26:17Z Indexed on 2012/04/04 17:33 UTC
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I want to put some of my own technical writing on the web: tutorials, how-to's, conceptual articles about programming etc. I write mostly for myself yet, but think others can benefit from it so I want to put it online, and I also have plans of making everything more coherent and turning it into a book.

My articles are not meant as a blog, they're just meant as a collection of tutorials and how-to's, but I think a blog-type software would probably be the most appropriate mode of formatting that kind of stuff.

Right now I am using the blog feature of cite u like, which is very low tech and I really need something better. On my wish list is, among other things:

  • code snippets in scrollable boxes
  • syntax highlighting for source code snippets
  • tagging articles with graphical icons according to topic, like in slashdot
  • of course users (i.e. readers) should be able to comment on articles
  • Also, just more options than a super-simple blog
  • should look slick! should not look wikipedia-like

Is there any software you can recommend for this purpose?

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