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Having just content on its own can be rather boring. You may want to have more functions on your site other than content.

Some features of sites you may be interested in adding:

Newsletters
This is a great way of contacting your regular visitors easily and quickly. You can add a form on your site which guests enter their email to get a weekly/monthly newsletter. Benefits of a newsletter is that you can send them out for free and it reminds people about your site. However you don’t want to have your guests regarding your site as sending spam.

Scripts to Checkout;

http://www.phplist.com/  - Free

Forum/Messageboard 

Forums allow other users to post messages and intereact with you and other users. They can post additional information to your site and exchange ideas.  They connect users from all around the world who have similar interests. However forums are high maintenence and at first it is difficult to get alot of posts. Also they are targetted by spammers

Scripts to Checkout

http://phpBB.com - Free
http://punbb.org/- Free
http://vbulletin.com - Paid

I’ve used both phpBB and vBulletin and highly reccommend vBulletin if it is within budget.