Well, there&#x27;s a markup language aimed at hypertext documents, oddly enough.  It&#x27;s called <i>hyper text markup language</i>....<p>Markdown is a good start at an <i>authoring</i> lanaguage, and it&#x27;s lightweight.  It&#x27;s <i>not</i> complete of itself, though.  I&#x27;d actually lean strongly toward LaTeX.<p>What ePub does is to take HTML and reduce it to a decent set.  Ultimately, I think that it, <i>or some alternate set of basic document templates</i> are pretty much what we want:<p>1. Index &#x2F; landing page.  Essentially a directory.<p>2. Article page.<p>3. Gallery page.  A set of thumbnails or other items displayed, many to a page (10, 25, 100, 1,000, ...).<p>4. Discussion.  That&#x27;s ye olde threaded &#x2F; flat set of comments on some topic, with or without an article.<p>Possibly a few other bits.  Anyone who&#x27;s worked with a reasonably robust CMS (Wordpress, Drupal, Mediawiki, etc.) probably has a pretty good sense of what these might be.<p>The real challenge is that there&#x27;s nobody to whack you upside the head for posting utterly gobshite HTML on your own site.  This is a place where, as much as I dislike major search engines laying down the law, I&#x27;d like them to do so.  Strongly encourage <i>well-formed Web sites and pages</i>, and, <i>especially</i>, to provide a bonus for high-reputation authorship, which would require both metadata (author field) <i>and</i> if possible, support for signing major payload (textual content, individual images or multimedia if possible).<p>Perhaps a few other bits....