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Godzilla Was Matthew · member Member # Joined: 11 Jul 2009 Posts: 237

Is it possible to set up some kind of blog on a webpage? Or maybe some opened kind of forum with one thread kind of thing?
I have messed around with phpbb on my website previously but what I am thinking is one opened section in the index, that possible?

At the moment I am using zenphoto for my webpage...

/end of rambling

Godzilla Was Matthew · member Member # Joined: 11 Jul 2009 Posts: 237

btw I searched google for blog related but couldn't find a software for it. Only one but that one was out of development.

T_England · member Member # Joined: 24 Feb 2009 Posts: 97

Set up a blogspot! blogspot.com its very easy to set up is google based and hosts your images. Quite a lot of people have them and so leave comments, its nice being able to comment on a specific image as well.
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T_England · member Member # Joined: 24 Feb 2009 Posts: 97

i just noticed you want it on your specific web address? I dunno how to do that :/
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Ian Jones · Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 7:31 am

Wordpress

Godzilla Was Matthew · member Member # Joined: 11 Jul 2009 Posts: 237

Yea I want it on my url because I started to think about making some kind of sketchbook on my site instead of flooding forums with my crappy pics lol.
Wordpress, will look it up.

Someone good with php in here? I think it would be neato to have an open thread kind of activity on the index, damn I
guess I have to get my hands dirty and do some php hacking.
ok thanks guys. Smile

Ian Jones · Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 11:32 am

You mean a single thread forum? public?

Godzilla Was Matthew · member Member # Joined: 11 Jul 2009 Posts: 237

yea, u have some ideas?

Ian Jones · Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 11:21 pm

Hmm, not sure if Wordpress is configurable for this... as I have never used it myself, but it is worth a look for sure. What you want is basically a blog allowing the public to post articles / their own artwork? or just comments? Sorry I should have been more specific before.

Other than that, if you do decide to develop for yourself make life easier and use a php framework like www.codeigniter.com or ruby on rails (host dependent)

jasonN · Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2009 2:21 am

You can configure Wordpress to have multiple memberships with different levels of access. Though I'm not sure if it's exactly what you're looking for.

If you do decide to go with it, check out this link: http://www.wpdesigner.com/category/tutorials/

Has come in handy for me in the past.
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Godzilla Was Matthew · member Member # Joined: 11 Jul 2009 Posts: 237

yea I looked at wordpress, they didn't have that many pages in showcase that showed what I am looking for.

Come to think about it the optimal solution would be an opened thread on my page, can you do that with phpbb?
That way the site would be just a like a sketchbook like the one I used to have in cgtalk. I have been messing around with php templates for my site previously and that worked very good.
Not necessary to have others to be able to post though, more of a documentation thing.

appreciate the help Smile

Godzilla Was Matthew · member Member # Joined: 11 Jul 2009 Posts: 237

U know I might keep fool around with zenphoto after all, maybe some adjustments and I will get there. Have to solve how to information message in the gallery instead of entering the picture.
I kind of like Zenphoto, it's just that you have to get your hands dirty with it because some commands has to be called, snif.

go look at the gallery if you have time, Something like this that I was looking for....
Might see what can be fixed with information messages in the gallery section.
thx again though

Godzilla Was Matthew · member Member # Joined: 11 Jul 2009 Posts: 237

ok never mind I deleted it haha damn I'm rambling, just wanted to say that the site is down.
gonna try wordpress.....

�On · member Member # Joined: 27 Jan 2008 Posts: 81

I dont know what happend, but right now nary a blog is able to show an image. First I wasn't sure if it was up to my browser, so I tried out different ones.

p.e. ashley wood http://ashleybambaland.blogspot.com/

I am not overreacting, I am just bored.

Godzilla Was Matthew · member Member # Joined: 11 Jul 2009 Posts: 237

uon, damn that's pretty neato.

Wordpress is not showing my pics and thumbnails?
hmm?
I did set access to write, snif...

Godzilla Was Matthew · member Member # Joined: 11 Jul 2009 Posts: 237

are there any other than wordpress?

Godzilla Was Matthew · member Member # Joined: 11 Jul 2009 Posts: 237

lol I contacted my webprovider via support message..hope to hear from them, tried out their blog software that comes with the domain. Things were linked when I added media to the blog instead of it adding the files to my domain, can't say I like that.
And wordpress itself didn't display pictures, seems like access to me?
Hmm...

�On · member Member # Joined: 27 Jan 2008 Posts: 81

lol what the hell is going on?

why can't I find any more infos or news about this?

john k. and all comments are just ignoring the fact, that there are NO FUCKING IMAGES TO BE SEEN!!!

http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/

So am I crazy or what? maybe something local?

Godzilla Was Matthew · member Member # Joined: 11 Jul 2009 Posts: 237

uon, what you talking about? I can see your pics.

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I found the most perfect blog I think, trying it out at the moment.
go look here

http://www.simplephpblog.com/

simple shit and just what I was looking for.

snoop around if you want. Will see what I can do with the logo later on.
http://www.umbus.com/

Gotta tell you guys I tried Drupal too but that and Wordpress really has bugs all around. why the hell do you have a htaccess file that causes more problem than it solves?
Weird...
Google doesn't find shit, have you guys also noticed that search functions in google have been getting worse?

�On · member Member # Joined: 27 Jan 2008 Posts: 81

lol sry for that man

(it was my firewall haha...)

Godzilla Likes Grapefruit · junior member Member # Joined: 30 Oct 2009 Posts: 34

Wordpress really is awesome, once you start to fumble around with the settings you notice how powerful it really is. Especially with the plugins.
The simplephpblog was just to simple, I noticed it when I wanted to enhance the theme and features, just wasn't possible....
In wordpress it comes just with some clicks.

Anyone of you that are good with gallery settings on a page in wordpress?
I am currently trying to add a gallery to a page, got that kpicasa plugin. Guess the right command is needed. ...Just thinking if it really needs to be added to the page link, or where?
Damn tricky stuff when you only got basic php skills, snif.

wahookah · Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 8:39 am

i would also vote for wordpress, just finished my own website: www.audiovisual.at
and i could implement all kind of things i needed rather easily.

As for the gallery, NextGEN Gallery gives you a solid start and there�s tons of plugins to extend it.

In general if you have a slight knowledge of how to work with php/mysql + some knowledge of html and css then there nothing better than setting up your own blog, it gives you so much more possibilities.

If you don�t wanna mess around, just get a blog like blogger.com or xxx.blogspot.com set a nice template and there you go...