Comments on: Why you need a Blog

By: 5 Ways to Get The Most Out of University | Open Mode

5 Ways to Get The Most Out of University | Open Mode — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 16:07:08 +0000

[...] There are plenty of articles online explaining why you should have a blog, and starting to do this while in university leads to my next point. [...]

By: Delaware.net Blog » Should you run your entire business web site with blog software?

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 16:24:27 +0000

[...] Blogs are continuing to explode in popularity. In a recent post, I explained why you need a blog, and how to set one up. If you aren’t familiar with blog software and what it is for, then you should read that post first. I also explained some of the pitfalls and potential misuses of your blog in another post. With this article, I want to give a bigger picture for folks that need a web site quickly, and who are considering blog software to run their ENTIRE web site. There ARE cases where blog software can work as the main web site for a business under rare circumstances, and I will go over this as well. [...]

By: john

john — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 12:55:28 +0000

Good question. The thing about blogs is that they store the posts and replies in a database. There is more to a blog than the posts themselves, there is also the categories, the search engine safe (SES) urls that it creates, etc. It is a true web application, mainly because it uses an application server (PHP for WordPress) and a databases server (MySQL for WordPress). There is usually very LITTLE design work with a blog, it is more about the structure of the content than anything else.

I recommend you setup WordPress for your blog, then LINK to it from your main site. To do this, you should setup your blog to run on a subdomain of your main site (i.e. http://blog.yourdomain.com). Your hosting company can help you set that up. Blogs use CSS for design for the most part, so it might be easier to get a theme and change it than to start with a whole new design from scratch.

Hope that helps.

By: Floppydog

Floppydog — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 23:41:37 +0000

Hi, John

A dumb beginner question….Do I NEED WordPress or Blogger or any other popular blogging software if I want to blog WITHIN MY OWN WEB SITE?

Right now, I have just the main page of my site, which I designed in Photoshop CS3, but next comes my diary (blog) and I’m not sure whether I should incorporate WordPress or use some sort of generic blogging software I’m unaware of. I bought Dreamweaver CS3 but know absolutely NOTHING about it–yet. I’ve heard Contribute plus Dreamweaver plus WordPress…but again, I’m just looking to take the next step, the second step, after designing my homepage.

Thanks for your time. I don’t HAVE to use WordPress–whatever makes sense for the second step. Floppydog (Ernie)