The best mechanism depends quite a bit on the nature of your articles, I think. For example, are they text only or do you include a lot of images or other graphics? Are they long or short? Do they require a lot of formatting?
Certainly blog posts offer you a terrific amount of flexibility in formatting, so that’s one option.
However, using dynamic pages with repeaters would be simpler and would make the task of building your pages a lot easier, if you can use a more standardized structure.
Pop-up windows don’t seem like a good idea, but maybe I don’t understand what you mean.
Can you point to any websites as examples of what you want to do?
Here are a couple of sites we’ve done recently that are heavily based on articles. In each case, the articles are dynamic pages and our ‘table of contents’ is a repeater that shows a title, some teaser text, and, in one case, an image for each article.
Do either of these look anything like what you want to accomplish?
The stories listed on the home page of the following site (LNF Weekly) are displayed with repeaters. Also look at the ‘archive’ page of this site for a cleaner example of a repeater that provides an index of stories.
This next site uses a repeater on the home page to list stories that appear on dynamic pages:
In both cases, we received the stories as a mix of PDF and Word documents. Moving them to the website involved some cutting and pasting and clean-up editing.
If these look like what you want to do, I can explain more about how to do it. If they’re not what you have in mind, can you explain how these differ from what you envision?