in need of major help
okay. i just signed up for a domain and hosting. nothing grand, just a modest delux package on a linux server.
the purpose of my website will be to post staff film reviews, AS WELL AS comments/feedback forum for each review. (*sort of* like aint-it-cool-news, but more blog format).
my question, is, how on EARTH do i go about doing this? i want to be able to upload the reviews easily-- i've been doing long, drawn out simple html notepad reviews at my old host and manually uploading/indexing my reviews alphabetically and by genre. how do i go about, now that i have a host which allows cgi and php (2 things i know NOTHING about), making this happen?
i tried using the free web portal called POSTNUKE which came with my hosting site, but it has too many features i don't want. the only thing i liked about it was it organized my reviews easily by typing them and just hitting submit and indexed everything on its own. it even did a top 10 thing where u could see the most popluar reviews and such.
so, does anyone know how to do this? there is so much mroe i'd like to do for the site, but this is my initial concern. can anyone please point me in the right direction?
thank u.
Busy posted this at 10:29 — 18th September 2005.
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CMS like postnuke, phpnuke etc often have control functions where as you choose which sections you want displayed. Even if this function is not complete enough for you, you could dive into the code and remove (comment out would be safer) the bits you don't need/want.
JeevesBond posted this at 16:15 — 18th September 2005.
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Well if you're looking for a blog format you could install some blogging software, Wordpress is a popular choice, as is Movable Type.
These will not be as feature-rich or give you the level of organisation that a fully-fledged CMS will. In fact, this might be a good option: Drupal, this doesn't seem too complicated, but it's more structured than an average blog application.
Sorry for being a little vague, but there are so many options available! Hopefully you'll be able to look at these and make a decision based upon your requirements.
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dASH posted this at 00:30 — 19th September 2005.
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thanks, guys, for the help. i'm checking out the links now. while i do that, here's a more in depth explanation of what i'm looking to do....
what i want the site to look like:
http://www.filmfanatix.com/index2.php
this is how i would like things to operate:
-- i want my staff (5 of us, maybe more in the future) to be able to use the login area to upload film reviews. i also want my staff to be able to login in order to upload their "staff feature" articles which also can automatically index themsevles by date of upload
-- i want the film reviews to be searchable, as well as alphabetized (without me having to do it manually). actually, anything on the site can be searchable.
-- i want the main page to operate like a news-type blog: i post the updates/news, but anyone can comment back on it
-- i want the film reviews to be able to have a comment section as well. like a mini forum (sort of like at aint-it-cool-news.com)
... and that's it i think.
now, is this impossible to do? is there anyone out there who could help me out, or point me in the right direction? i *really* want to get this done, and now that i've provided a layout, i'm sure ya'll can get a better idea of what i'm looking for.
demonhale posted this at 03:35 — 19th September 2005.
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First if you really need to do this right the first time, Hire a web Developer...
Secondly the Link you suggested uses Zymic's Templates... Well... Templates might make somebody in the forums cringe...
dASH posted this at 21:26 — 19th September 2005.
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lol why's that? i'm going to have to make my own anyway-- i don't think anything but IE can display it right. i love style sheets because they make the sites look so much better, but hate them for not being universal.
baldrick posted this at 23:14 — 19th September 2005.
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What do you mean style sheets not accepted only on very old browsers.
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