Just met a little while ago with the fine folks at Bryght, who have a dandy little idea that could become a much bigger one.

Say you want a web presence for your company and organization. You’d like discussion forums, a blog, some kind of content management system so non-techies on your staff can update the site… but you don’t know quite where to start. How do you host it? What software should you use? How do you install it, and what the hell is a server path name, anyway?

If these questions don’t fill you with fear and dread, or at least a little uncertainty, then maybe Bryght isn’t for you. If the thought of not having to futz endlessly with permissions trying to get the #$%@ template to load makes you sad, Bryght almost certainly isn’t for you. (Although they have a cool mass deployment option that might still prove useful.)

But if you have a hard time even looking at those issues, you might want to have a look at Bryght. With a few clicks of your mouse (and a modest lightening of your credit card), they’ll set up a web site for you based on the open-source platform known as Drupal. (It’s what Howard Dean’s folks used to generate huge online buzz back in 2003.) You’ll get the latest stable version, the best added functions, and some of the best-written documentation I’ve seen from a web host.

They’re nice. They’re from Vancouver. And they get what the web can be.