Word press, I decided to bring back the blog

[nadinbrzezinski]

to my website, and found that Word Press works well

It will cut down on having to update the site that often... but I will have to redo some of it anyway... life, fun, what can I say?

Been looking at some things on the web, but may as well design my site again

Now I do own dreamweaver and I love it, alas anybody knows of a good editor that will play nice with dreamweaver on the LINUX platform that does not require me to ... ahem do a lot of work?

That will be the toy that I will take when I visit parents and all that

Oh and word press, can handle images

[sandnsea]

1. I just start using ning

It has complete capabilities. You can let all your users create their own page and modify it as they choose, plus you can modify the main site to include whatever you want from calendars to forums to a general update of any activity.

You can have them configure your domain with their platform, lots of different things.

I just set up the web site, potshotpolitics.com to link to the ning

http://potshotpolitics.ning.com/

I haven't done anything much with it beyond that, but it's got a lot of potential.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Looks sharp but my site is commercial

www.deistgames.com

I will have to seat down with dreamweaver and decide what stays and what goes and what gets updated for next year

I roll out a new site every year or so

[sandnsea]

3. That's okay

You can use the blog part with commercial, just embed the rss of the blog feed over to the main site. There's no restrictions on how it's used. You can pay extra to have it completely integrated, but I don't think that's necessary if you just link it up and use embeds. Depends on the amount of traffic you have I suppose.

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. And the ammount of work

for the moment I will look at the site, and consider what I will do this year.

HTML is the easiest for me to do, but the hardest to update

And other codes, are a pain to write (CSS)

Will be seeing if I can find a good software package for the Linux lappie, I was thinking of coding in Dreamweaver and taking site with me with lappie just in case I need to update, using a good HTML editor

I like LINUX but in some ways it is a pain

[GregD]

13. You really should consider image sizes

The image at the top of http://www.deistgames.com/Shortfictionkir.html has no file extention reference (poor coding technique) and the image itself has been squeezed into the 300x300 dimensions using HTML. However, the file itself is over 18MB (18,747,456 to be exact) and should be paced in an image editor such as Photoshop and resized to an appropriate size. If you happen to have dial-up users, that page will be virtually inaccessible, and with broadband I had to wait minutes for the page to load.

[blogslut]

5. If you're wanting a CSS WYSIWYG

http://kompozer.net">Kompozer is nice.

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. Downloaded it and will be seeing if it loads on my EEPC (strange version of Xandros)

I used it on the Mac today, but I had all kinds of fun

Yes I am spoiled by the ease of dreamweaver, which is VERY easy to use

[blogslut]

7. Dreamweaver is too big for me

I prefer http://www.arachnoid.com/arachnophilia">Arachnophilia but it's not a WYSIWYG editor. I am still trying to figure out CSS, so I need something like Kompozer to do the thinking for me. :)

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. And for me Dreamweaver is a great program, Hell will even see

if Open Office does it and does not add all kinds of fun to the code

Don't feel like cleaning code

And Amaya is not that friendly, if you want to do just HTML

[blogslut]

9. Well, Kompozer

...tends to make your images and stuff link from your hard drive, so you have to go into the source code and manually fix it. There's probably a setting that takes care of that but I'm too lazy to find out.

As for Arachnophilia, if you know HTML, it is, straight up, the best editor ever. I'm not fond of the newer java-based version. I like the old version 4 the best, but it won't run on anything but a Windows machine. Hell, I don't even know if the jave version will run on Linux. So maybe Arachnophilia is right out.

However, http://bluefish.openoffice.nl">BlueFish is a great Linux-type alternative to Arachnophilia.

[JCMach1]

10. If you are wanting a blog, Word Press is the bomb...

The plugins can make it do almost anything... Plus if you are a programmer, customize your own templates for Wordpress.

I especially love the theme I customized at http://usa2uae.com ...

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. I wonder if I can fiddle with it in Dreamweaver and then upload it to my site

replace the whole site with Wordpress and page links to relevant pages?

Will definitely fiddle with the one I downloaded today... would make the thing very functional and modern

Thanks for the idea

[JCMach1]

12. You might want to write an initial index page and tie the Worpress Code

in behind (or with that). That's a lot of customization. It might be simpler to find a theme that is almost exactly what you want and then tweek the code.

[nadinbrzezinski]

14. That's what I was thinking of doing

or just plain out just redesign the site and link ot the blog

The site needs to be redesigned as is... every year it is the same story

:-)