Private blog or website

I am the president of our neighborhood association (ugh) and we would like to put together preferably a blog that only the residents can see.
We'd cover issues in the 'hood about leaving for the winter (which half our residents do) to what projects we have going on, etc. Many of our residents are older and although they all have a computer they feel that if the blog is public it will target our neighborhood for break ins or what not (nice homes many vacant in winter months, etc.).
I have moblieMe and iWeb 09. Is there a way I can make a blog or website on either of these that is private.
I'm pretty sure you can set up a blog on blogger that is private but to do that all viewers have to have a gmail/blogger account and some of the older residents would have issues with that. I'd like to just somehow be able to restrict it to a simple sign in or to only certain email addresses.
Many thanks for any help.
Susan

Susan ~ Problems with iWeb's blog are a recurring theme on these forums: Lost all blog entries or all comments or unable to publish, etc. — so I wouldn't recommend you use it for your new project. One free blogging platform you may appreciate for its simple email access is:
http://www.posterous.com/faq
...and you can make a Posterous blog "private" such that users need to enter a password to view your site:
http://posterous.com/help/private_sites
Or this social networking site has a blog and membership system:
http://about.ning.com/product.php
And for a success story using a non-iWeb blog hosted on WordPress, see this old thread:
_To blog or not to blog_

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