blogging Software

AHarvey · 10 Dec 2008 at 17:32

Hi all,

I have a work site that we want to use to display a newsletter, however at the moment I have to code it all myself which I don't mind but they want the ability to do it themselves.

So, I was thinking that the best for people with ZERO knowledge or people who would prefer to use dreamweaver would simply to use a blogging program.

I've never used one before but can anyone suggest a free one that I can upload and configure on the webserver? Haven't got sql access though if that is important.

daz · 10 Dec 2008 at 17:37

I'm not sure if there are any decent flat-file blogging scripts (which is what you'll have to find if you don't have MySQL)

Wordpress is the ubiquitous choice these days otherwise.

AHarvey · 10 Dec 2008 at 17:50

well I can contact the hosting company that work is using and try to get SQL access.

we already run SMF as forum software so we do have SQL on the account.

AHarvey · 10 Dec 2008 at 19:34

Just a thought, would it be possible to create an sql database for use with Wordpress on a free hosting server and then somehow get wordpress to use that from the company site?

daz · 10 Dec 2008 at 19:43

It's unlikely a free hosting server would allow an external connection to its MySQL server.

If you only have access to a single SQL database you should be able to get the forums and wordpress sharing a database by using table prefixes.