I'd recommend using WordPress and writing a custom plugin. You can write reviews as normal posts and just include your custom code in the review, e.g. "[softwa

I'd recommend using WordPress and writing a custom plugin. You can write reviews as normal posts and just include your custom code in the review, e.g. "[software iSaber] iSaber is great because it lets me embrace my inner Jedi." The [software Saber] then gets parsed by your custom plugin, which converts it to whatever link/representation you want to use to software. For example of this in action (with books), see http://learningtheworld.eu/2007/amazon-machine-tags/ http://learningtheworld.eu/2007/amazon-machine-tags/ You can also use WordPress's categories and tags as navigation, and WP offers a whole host of plugins that you can use to quickly add functionality (e.g. ratings, see: http://www.lesterchan.net/wordpress/readme/wp-postratings.html http://www.lesterchan.net/wordpress/readme/wp-postratings.ht...). Since all of WP's plugins are open source, you can customize anything you use to your hearts desire. I find the biggest advantage of WP is that it lets you focus on what's unique to your project and lets you iterate very quickly -- you get something working right away, and build up on it, with a lot of features built in from the getgo. The biggest disadvantage is that you have to work with the way WP works, which may not be appropriate for your particular application. Here, you want to do reviews and WP does a great job of dealing with blog posts, which are blocks of content just like reviews. I'd say it's a pretty good match. If you don't like WP and want to write something from scratch, you can use Django or CakePHP or Rails, depending on your language of choice. Best of luck!