Which blogging software? -via Fantastico
Which blogging software? -via Fantastico
WebHosting Companies offer Fantastico which has
the blogging software as follows:
b2evolution
Nucleus
pMachine Free
WordPress
I'm not familiar with any of them. I only posted in the blogger so far.
Ideally I want to be able to publish
1)via email
2)posts may include some images
Do you think I'm better of with one of the above softwares come free or get none of the above & get coffee cup blogging software which makes you be able to post text along with images -not sure via email though.
Please help
bja888 (not verified) posted this at 00:17 — 26th August 2005.
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Personally, I write my own software. Which includes my blog which I hope to be able to sell on my site by the end of the month. I suggest you try demos till you find the one that your most comfortable with.
antoine posted this at 00:37 — 26th August 2005.
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I've just tested the coffee cup blogger.
I wouldn't use it. It is extremely primitive compared to blogger.com
demonhale posted this at 00:38 — 26th August 2005.
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Wordpress generally would be ok...
antoine posted this at 00:41 — 26th August 2005.
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publishing photos as well with it, users are having too many problems according to the forum they run.
Have you successfully published photo along with text by any chance and if you did, how did you manage to succeed?
regards
demonhale posted this at 00:46 — 26th August 2005.
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Since I used using my own host, you could always rescript it so I can use photos whithin the body... The main blog system I had an experience with no hiccups was the one used by blogger.com, Also tried Typepad, It is ok too...
Megan posted this at 13:17 — 26th August 2005.
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I've only used images in my blog a few times and I remember having some problems with the upload area. I ended up uploading the images by ftp and referencing them by a regular image tag.
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antoine posted this at 13:26 — 27th August 2005.
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Thank You Megan. Sorry about the delay.
I first installed the wordpress in the server and try to learn through their forums on how to import the content from blogger.com and noticed so many frustrated souls in the process and all ask some help and steps sound like not foolproof, I was in a hurry to be live ASAP and ftp'd my posts from my blogger.com after uninstalling the wordpress. They are at least live now under the paid host and I'll continue to ftp post through my blogger.com until I get some foolproof steps for beginners for myself to import them as well as finding a better template or import my current one into wordpress.
I just email my posts through blogger.
Not being able to attach images in the email to post though.
Maybe the new softwares will figure that in the future to make it simpler.
Otherwise maintenance of the site becomes a long task when the images need to be uploaded seperately.
All the best
bja888 (not verified) posted this at 15:14 — 26th August 2005.
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The blog I am writing....
- Attach images to a post and they automatically get added to the archive.
- Browse the images archive
- None of the images are in the webroot folder. They can only be displayed if you have the proper security level.
- Every post, log-in and image gets a security rating by the owner of the blog that decides who can see it. 0 = public (no log-in required) 5 = only the most trusted of your friends.
- Comments can be posted.
Its gonna be sooo sexy! I cant wait till I get it done
Roo posted this at 23:28 — 26th August 2005.
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I love pMachine Pro (which is free)
bja888 (not verified) posted this at 01:17 — 27th August 2005.
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Link for Roo's post... http://www.pmachine.com/pm/feature_grid/
Seriously... does everything you guys do have to be in php? The only advantage php has over my asp(.net) script is that mine needs extra components (free for personal use). At least till 2.0 framework comes out. (before or with vista)
Roo posted this at 03:24 — 27th August 2005.
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Yup...it's the best thing since sliced bread.
ASP is Micro$haft's answer to backend programming...and I've not yet visted a site that works correctly with it. (I'm sure it works just fine in thier browser, but the only time I launch that beast is for testing sites I'm developing)
Roo
bulldog1256 posted this at 05:47 — 27th August 2005.
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ASP is a worthy language, just a little more difficult in my opinion. I think it's not as popular just because it has to do with Microsoft. As far as a blog, try pLog. I think it might be what you are looking for. And if you ever wanted to let other people blog on your site, you could.
bja888 (not verified) posted this at 10:46 — 27th August 2005.
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I don’t like php for the same reason I hate macromedia products. It looks and feels like it was built for a 5 year old. It's like the AOL users version of web development.
ASP isn’t the only alternative. You can write a Java based language. If java is supposed to be so superior why doesn’t anyone use that? I can just see it now.... Someone buys a blog script then realizes its in java and they have no clue how to set it up.
Are you talking about purchased scripts? I have never seen a professional web site that uses php.
demonhale posted this at 13:30 — 27th August 2005.
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hey theres hello program you can downloaded that can remotely post pictures and contents via your computer to your blogger account, it functions like yahoo IM...
antoine posted this at 15:21 — 27th August 2005.
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I was so excited to try, but it is so slow, I could upload more pictures along with text through blogger than this heavy program.
So it's not like an email publishing.
Pity
Thank you for the news anyway.
Appreciate it
dragonsjaw posted this at 01:39 — 29th August 2005.
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This might not to relevent (not available with Fantastico), but movabletype.org (MT) still offers a free version and for a small sum someone from there will install for you if that is a problem.
Not sure about the email publishing thing, but the interface for MT is easy and there are a ton of MT photoblog templates/code out there too.
And just posting a photo with your blog writing is no problem at all, even on a slow dial up connection.
And some hosts have bought a licence and maybe your host can set it up for you.
I have an older version of MT still running fine, and like Roo, I hope to transfer my other sites (someday) over to pmachine pro.
HTH
~bobbi
"Nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight- 'Got to kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight." - Bruce Cockburn
antoine posted this at 17:40 — 29th August 2005.
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Thank you dragonsjaw.
My first priority is email publishing though.
Anyone has any successful experience with email publishing -pix and text through any software?
Regards
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