What are the platforms/software that are common to use to create a professional blog for an important person? Do blogs always share the same platform as the main website when they are an offshoot of the website as one of the main backpages? Is it common to design a blog separately from the main web page?
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| Tony The Tiger wrote: |
| What are the platforms/software that are common to use to create a professional blog for an important person? |
http://php.opensourcecms.com/scripts/show.php?catid=1&cat=CMS%20/%20Portals
take a look at the cms section, most of those are used a lot.
I know Drupal, Joomla, Mambo and Typo are used a lot by professionals. Maybe some others are also used, but a lot of the smaller ones have really bad code or are hard to extend.
| Tony The Tiger wrote: |
| Do blogs always share the same platform as the main website when they are an offshoot of the website as one of the main backpages? |
no, but is easy to make them share the same files, so you only need those files once. For example if you had 2 blogs (bloga.com and blogb.com) you could put the php files in one dir and make one config file for each. That way they could both use a different database (or prefix), but you'd only need the files once.
| Tony The Tiger wrote: |
| Is it common to design a blog separately from the main web page? |
and I moved this thread.
| rvec wrote: | ||
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What I envision is a main page with tabs one of which would be a tab for the blog. There will be a lot of other important tabs on the main page and the blog will not be the main page. Thank you for your extensive responses.
| Tony The Tiger wrote: |
| What are the platforms/software that are common to use to create a professional blog for an important person? |
If Obama is an important person and http://www.barackobama.com/index.php is a professional blog, then it would be Textpattern
| rockacola wrote: | ||
If Obama is an important person and http://www.barackobama.com/index.php is a professional blog, then it would be Textpattern |
I'm sure that is an example of one that would be acceptable.
http://www.recovery.gov/
obama is using drupal
http://buytaert.net/tag/drupal-sites
those are the bigger sites that're using drupal.
obama is using drupal
http://buytaert.net/tag/drupal-sites
those are the bigger sites that're using drupal.
| rvec wrote: |
| http://www.recovery.gov/
obama is using drupal
http://buytaert.net/tag/drupal-sites those are the bigger sites that're using drupal. |
Although you have provided a list with examples, that list does not lead me to believe drupal is the leader in the field.
http://www.packtpub.com/open-source-cms-award-previous-winners
drupal won the last 2 years, maybe that's a better reason?
edit:
btw I might be a bit biased because I work at a company that develops websites with drupal and because I've been using drupal for my last 4 websites.
drupal won the last 2 years, maybe that's a better reason?
edit:
btw I might be a bit biased because I work at a company that develops websites with drupal and because I've been using drupal for my last 4 websites.
| Tony The Tiger wrote: |
| What are the platforms/software that are common to use to create a professional blog for an important person? Do blogs always share the same platform as the main website when they are an offshoot of the website as one of the main backpages? Is it common to design a blog separately from the main web page? |
Peace.
I don't know the answer to those questions, but I do know it should be easy for the important person. Just pick something that will allow the important person to post a new post/article with ease. So maybe wordpress or something.
The most common blogging platforms are wordpress, movabletype, and textpattern. Wordpress dominates the niche. Drupal is something bigger than a blogging platform - it can do much more than that. I personally recommend it, but you can use others like joomla or typo3 if you like (I think joomla community is bigger than that of drupal, but size is not everything).
If it's an important person, he/she probably needs much more that a blog (maybe polls, forums, photo/video galleries etc., and increased performance). So pick one of those "more-than-blogging" platform I mentioned.
If it's an important person, he/she probably needs much more that a blog (maybe polls, forums, photo/video galleries etc., and increased performance). So pick one of those "more-than-blogging" platform I mentioned.
joomla does have a bigger community but since most important persons would need some things modified I'd still go with drupal. It's just easier to make drupal modules than it is to add things to joomla or mambo.
If you want only a blog I'd say wordpress, if you want more I'd say drupal would be your best choice (especially when drupal 7 comes out).
If you want only a blog I'd say wordpress, if you want more I'd say drupal would be your best choice (especially when drupal 7 comes out).
If yo are interested in only blogging and then if thats your only main concern then you can go with Wordpress as it's easy and simple even for a beginner. Installation and creating new blogs is much simple here and you also get lots of free themes which you can install to change your look and feel layout.
hope this helps your decision.
hope this helps your decision.
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