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I know a lot of you have bloging like things on your website, and post articles to it at least semi-regularly. Storm Saxon piqued my curiosity, I know have a sudden desire to write a political column type thing, even if three people would read it (counting me twice, once for each eye ).
I would want to host I on my own website, I have plenty of space (plenty of space) and the server well pretty much run any sort of net development language (PHP, perl, whatever). Now I wouldn’t mind writing my own, and in fact I might, but I can’t right now, and I was hoping someone could point me to something a little more sophisticated than just saving a Word document in html format and copying the file onto my server…
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blogGing. "bloging" sounds to me like "blow-jing".
I use moveabletype, but I think the newest version costs money. I've heard good things about WordPress. This is a great "try before you install" site, they let you cruise around in the admin interfaces on their server.
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I am an avid website designer. I use a program called dreamweaver that helps me design sophisticated pages. This product is made by macromedia. I highly suggest you learn html and flash launguage before you start. These launguages are essentual to writing a good page. To check out some of my work go to Example site 1 If you have any questions for me please email me at RockInNick631@yahoo.com Hope this helps!
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I'm sorry, but making a template for phpnuke isn't web design. Web design means drawing out the layout (either on paper, using a program, in your head, whatever) and writing the page, either using a WYSIWYG editor like Dreamweaver, Frontpage, etc, or writing it out using a text editor such as Crimson Editor or BBEdit. Satyagraha
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Well I downloaded it, played with the files as instructed, uploaded appropriatly (into cgi, fixed the static path for docs, images and *.css). I checked to make sure all the modules installed (they are) and ran the mt.cgi setup... and after entering the logon (the default one) it just tells me that it can't find the page? It's not a cgi generated error message, and it simply redirects to itself (mt.cgi) which I know is there. Any ideas? I fixed permessions too...
Why is that nothing I do with servers ever works like it's supposed to? I mean I know computers play tricks on you and you can't expect everything to work out right away, but I don't remember the last time I did something with servers that worked like it was supposed to.
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I use Blogger for my blog. I've been back and forth between blogging with HTML and using Blogger and finally went back to Blogger for convenience. Plus, they upgraded some of the features and I can add pictures.
You have the choice of hosting on Blogspot for free or hosting on your own Web site.
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No, 1+1 is down, that's what he's hosting his site on Moveable Type just gives you the appropriate files to run their program on your server. I don't use 1+1 so I'm in the clear on that one.
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MoveableType is great, I've really enjoyed it. I've been testing WordPress recently, and I have been thoroughly impressed, it's really clean and nice also.
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As I understand it, WordPress is gaining a lot of traction in the blogging world -- esp. now that Movable Type is moving to a paid-only model. Some bloggers like TypePad (also paid), but knowing that you like to configure your own stuff and like a lot of flexibility, I think WordPress is the way to go for you, Hobbes. There are a lot of intersting scripts being developed by users to add cool features to your blog.
I use Blogger for A Motley Vision. I actually work as a Web editor [Dreamweaver and before that a simple HTML text editor] so I resisted the idea of being a Blogger blogger for a long time, but in the end, I didn't want to pay even the minimal fee it would require for a domain name and hosting service. Plus Blogger's new incarnation is much better (imo) than what it was.
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And I would add that working with FrontPage isn't Web design. It's word processing with HTML. ::shudder::
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Does your host provide MySQL? If so, the database is typically already set up (you usually only get one).
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The type looks quite static to me. Perhaps you're spending too much time in front of a computer screen, mack.
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As a note Hobbes, when it says "website address" or somesuch, it means the url of where the blog is at, it took me a smidge to figure that out. Sataygraha
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How would one go about finding out about this database? Things I need are: Name, user name, password. I assume username and password are the same as what I use to logon to the server, but what would the name of the database be, and where is it? Obviously I mean in general where would it be on a server, since there's no way you would know where mine specifically was...
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It should be in the admin console for your webspace, or they should have included it in an email when they gave it to you. Satyagraha
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