I'm designing a site, and I was wondering if you all could help me. I don't want to run a full content managed site, but there are a few features that I would need.

I am looking something where I can post news to either a news page or the front page. This will need to be updated by certain users that I would specify. PHPNuke has something like this, but as I said, I don't want the full Nuke Package. Basically something like EzPublish's article's feature, except it would display news only, published by specific users.

Secondly, what is the best PHP/MySQL chat room? This site will require a fast and small chat room, something that won't boot users off of. I have a great host, so the hosting is not the issue, but bandwith is, so if it is going to eat a lot of bandwith, then I'll probably scrap the chat. There will most likely be several hundred users to this site weekly.

That's it for now.... thanks if you can help me!