Trying to convert my home page into a blog
Hi, everyone,
I'm trying to convert my home page into a blog format, while retaining the original design.
Here is my draft version:
http://www.webservertimes.com/Blog/index1.html
Has anyone here tried to do this before? I'm concerned about having a lot of bloated code, extraneous fonts, etc..
Any advice would be appreciated, as always,
andy206uk posted this at 09:40 — 9th February 2004.
He has: 1,758 posts
Joined: Jul 2002
Nice site. (I really like it!) If you are concerned about having too much code on the page the simple solution is to use CSS styles for all your text. This will really minimise the amount of code you use because you could go from having:
<p><font face="arial, verdana, mono" size="11"><b>Bold Text Here</b></font></p>'to simply:
<p class="boldtext">Bold Text</p>'I know its not much of a difference, but when you have maybe 10-20 articles on a page it can reduce your load times significantly.
Also, it might be worth considering perhaps showing maybe 5 stories in full format, and then showing the next 10-20 as simply headlines underneath. I'm not sure how flexible Movable Type is, but I know Pmachine (pmachine.com) could handle that functionality and much much more! (plus you could just have an intro on the homepage, and have the full article on another page).
I use pmachine on my blog at greendezire.com although I don't use it in the way that you could make use of it.
Andy
rtroxel posted this at 23:16 — 10th February 2004.
He has: 286 posts
Joined: Mar 2003
Well, I figured it out.
I was struggling with Movable Type, but then something occurred to me: Just add a few lines of the article to the home page, then add a link to the full article. Put a date on it, and you have a blog!
Who needs blogging software??
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