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Author:  Fogmeister [ Wed May 15, 2013 6:24 pm ]
Post subject:  Blogs
I'm looking for a blog system to use for my website...

www.oliverfoggin.com

At the moment I use wordpress but I don't really like it. There are too many options. I just want a simple, clean looking site.

The only things (what are they called?) I know about are...

Wordpress
Tumblr
and
Blogger

but I don't know enough to compare them or to know what's good etc...

Any ideas?
Author:  tombolt [ Wed May 15, 2013 7:27 pm ]
Post subject:  Blogs
I use cms made simple which has a news module, but that might be more complicated than you want as it's a site + news section, where all you want is a news section. With cms made simple you also have to create your own skin as the supplied ones are a bit gash.
Author:  JJW009 [ Wed May 15, 2013 8:04 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Blogs
Can't you strip Wordpress down to make it simple and clean?
I'd browse a few custom themes before giving up on it.
Author:  Fogmeister [ Wed May 15, 2013 8:53 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Blogs
JJW009 wrote:
Can't you strip Wordpress down to make it simple and clean?
I'd browse a few custom themes before giving up on it.

Thanks for the push.

I went out to look for a better (simpler) theme.

I found one, it's not amazing but it'll do for now.

AND I was able to edit it slightly. It's the first time I've done anything more than some test php stuff.

My changes...

1. Only show 5 latest posts on the homepage.
2. Only show the excerpts in the homepage.
3. While doing this still show the full post in the single post page.

I wasn't quite sure how to add a parameter to a file so I had to create an additional file so code reuse is bad but it worked.
Author:  timark_uk [ Wed May 15, 2013 10:22 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Blogs
Wordpress is ace.
I use it for both my main photography site and my blog.

Mark
Author:  jonlumb [ Thu May 16, 2013 8:47 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Blogs
You're a bright chap, why not write something yourself?
Author:  Fogmeister [ Thu May 16, 2013 9:01 pm ]
Post subject:  Blogs
I wish I could.

I'm really not a designer and I'm not a web developer.

Having looked at the Wordpress theme I downloaded I could possibly write a theme myself but it'd take a lot of effort.
Author:  JJW009 [ Thu May 16, 2013 10:17 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Blogs
jonlumb wrote:
You're a bright chap, why not write something yourself?

My head went: "He's writing a blog, why doesn't that count?" :oops:
Author:  finlay666 [ Sat May 18, 2013 9:40 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Blogs
Fogmeister wrote:
I wish I could.

I'm really not a designer and I'm not a web developer.


If you use umbraco and use blog4umbraco I've got code to do what you want but can give you a hand over skype if you want, got some q's to ask you about iOS dev as it happens on consuming web services/feeds for an app I'm making
Author:  saspro [ Fri May 24, 2013 9:35 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Blogs
Fogmeister wrote:

Having looked at the Wordpress theme I downloaded I could possibly write a theme myself but it'd take a lot of effort.


Artisteer would do it for you.

or something like pagelines
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