Bloging for my website

PaulW · 22 May 2008 at 13:40

hi all,

i have made a website for a charity and i currently have a news page on the site.

However, one person involved in the charity wants me to add an easy way for them to update the page with news etc. they suggested a blog for it but i have no clue about blogs and dont know what is the best. does anyone have any ideas or has anyone used one in the past.

it needs to be quite simple adding text. photos and links to documents etc

thx in advance

Paul

Inquisitor · 22 May 2008 at 13:41

Wordpress sounds like it'd do the job nicely:

http://wordpress.org/

Slogan · 22 May 2008 at 13:50

Wordpress as mentioned.

PaulW · 22 May 2008 at 14:38

ok this looks like a standard blog site that you upload...which is not what im after

www.horizonsplymouth.org

this is the site i made and if you look at the news section the guy just wants to update this with text and images, they dont know HTML and so i cant just install dreamweaver and say do it.

wordpress just looks abit OTT for what i need (or am not seeing the wood for the trees) . thankyou both for your thought ido appreciate them.

P

Van Hellseek · 22 May 2008 at 14:41

CuteNews?

http://cutephp.com/

Ethics · 22 May 2008 at 14:42

Dreamweaver supports templates though...

Create a news template where they can clearly see where to put text and images, and then show them how to upload, its really very simple with anyone half interested in listening to you

Ross1234 · 22 May 2008 at 14:44

you could try this:

http://gentlesource.com/news-script/

I find it very good and better than cutenews.

You can integrate it into your site layout and comes with a wysiwyg editor

Ross1234 · 22 May 2008 at 14:45

Ethics said:
Dreamweaver supports templates though...

Create a news template where they can clearly see where to put text and images, and then show them how to upload, its really very simple with anyone half interested in listening to you

They would need dreamweaver though

dave-lew99 · 22 May 2008 at 23:19

i wrote an extremely simple back end for www.irisradar.com

all of the news items are user editable and they can edit/create new ones too. It's not that hard to do if you learn a little PHP and DB access.

www.tizag.com is a good place to start