Noob Question - How to post updates/news??
I have been making just private websites for fun (like on geocities) for a while and I have dreamweaver and photoshop. But i'm finally taking the plunge into a real web page.
My question is, how can I put in an area (such as on my home page) where I can update, post news, and things of that sort, but also have my visitors be able to post responses to my posts?
teammatt3 posted this at 22:28 — 28th January 2005.
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You're going to need a some type of script for that. Or you could make your own script. Check out hotscripts.com for one.
Megan posted this at 04:05 — 29th January 2005.
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This is what's called a blog (more or less). You can do a google for what that means. There are a lot of variations but one form is, like you said, to post news and such with comments. I use a script called wordpress (http://www.wordpress.com). It's really easy to set up and there's really good customization and documentation. You could also check out blogger.com, moveable type... I forget what the others are called but there are lots of good ones out there.
Megan
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andy206uk posted this at 23:32 — 30th January 2005.
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Just to follow on from what Megan has said... Blogger.com is a good service with lots of options and it's very easy to use. Most bloggers start off at Blogger.
Andy
ValleyPages posted this at 12:45 — 6th February 2005.
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you can also try cutenews to update the site...it would have to be a host with PHP.
CptAwesome posted this at 05:12 — 7th February 2005.
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The "classics" are MovableType, Greymatter, NewsPro (which is something else now I think) and yeah, Blogger.
For more complex and if you're hosted with php, you can even get something like a forum software, and mod out certain sections so only you can post in them.
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