Help with Blogs.

Pádraig · June 7th, 2007, 01:42 PM

This is more for people who have blogs but, if anyone else has some answers please feel free to post them.

So the people who have blogs: How do update them?

Do you upload every page separately, or is there another way?

Thanks,
Pádraig.

karinne · June 7th, 2007, 01:51 PM

Pfft ... Like I'm gonna tell my secrets to you

Ok ... seriously ... it's a CMS

Personally, I use my own. One I built myself and pretty damn proud of it too

It's still a work in progress but it works to my liking.

Some popular ones you can download and install are:

MovableType
Textpattern
Wordpress
Drupal
Joomla

There ... there's probably more but those are the ones I could think of right now.

Lchad · June 7th, 2007, 01:52 PM

I have a wordpress blog and to update it, I log into my wordpress control panel which is hosted on my web host server.* You add a post in the control panel and

Pádraig · June 7th, 2007, 01:52 PM

Thanks for the replies!

I will take a look at some of them links, Karinne!

karinne · June 7th, 2007, 01:56 PM

I added Wordpress in there ... DUH!

Ryan Fait · June 7th, 2007, 02:31 PM

I'm behind the times. I manually add pages to mine. Been meaning to make a custom CMS for it, but I don't like coding very much

Pádraig · June 7th, 2007, 02:48 PM

What kind of coding skills would you need to build your own CMS?

karinne · June 7th, 2007, 02:55 PM

PHP and MySQL

Blake121 · June 7th, 2007, 06:43 PM

I use a CMS as well. My own

Very proud of it too!

I used to upload all my pages separately but that got really tedious lol.

CMS is definitely the way to go.

patbyrneme · June 8th, 2007, 09:15 AM

I have just had a look at Joomla and its capabilities sound great. But I discover that unlike Dreamweaver you have to code everything. Unfortunately, I don't know how to code and don't have time to learn as I am so busy researching, writing and creating content. The more I get into this whole area of web design the more I think it sucks. It's like having to learn C++ programming before you can use a wordprocessor!
What a shame Microsoft were so lazy with Publisher - it could have been a brilliant wysiwyg graphic web interface designer if they had only developed it further.
Is there a CMS that doesn't require one to code?
Patrick

JacobHaug · June 9th, 2007, 02:48 AM

Yes a CMS is the way to go, and I would totally make my own...that must be why I don't have a blog...too lazy.

pa007 · June 10th, 2007, 06:41 PM

Moveable Type is so good, it's just great but I like expression engine too.

Pete.

Ryan Fait · June 11th, 2007, 08:54 AM

I think the reason why I don't use a CMS is because I am such a perfectionist. I have roughly 30 pages on my site, so it's not too tedious to change a thing here or there if I revamp my site.

karinne · June 11th, 2007, 09:53 AM

I have 5

Ryan Fait · June 11th, 2007, 10:12 AM

Ah, but my 'blog' is included

karinne · June 11th, 2007, 10:28 AM

That is my blog

rukshankb · June 15th, 2007, 10:10 PM

Blogspot is very easy to learn and update.Some dynamic concept should be knew.See my new blog
TheSiteWriter

cocoonfx · June 16th, 2007, 09:22 AM

Hi

I built my own blog with a little help from some tutorials and a lot burning the mid night oil....

I have used PHP with a MySQL backend.

I have a user end which people blog (at the moment no one has) and then an administration area which has a form to create new threads and manage the whole blog space.

I was originally going to use wordpress as it was free but i thought lets be different. You can also buy some software called vBulletin which this forum use and 90% of other forums use.

Have a look at mine... you have to become a member....