View Full Version : A blog directly from your own website


GameDesigner
01-09-2007, 01:18 PM
Yeah, you're thinking, "What, another MySpace?"

But hear me out. I'm not good at PHP. I'm not great at HTML. So I was curious if there is a blog function you can add to a website made with that Microsoft Expression Web Designer program. Or Frontpage, or even Dreamweaver, for that matter. Regardless, I wanna be able to add a code to one of the pages in the site (I have my own webhost and FTP with big bandwidth and space) so it shows a sort of blog function.

Main reason I want it is for reviews. Game, movie, whatever. I use Bravenet for some things, but a lot of their stuff they make you link back. I've already got a couple of those, but if my website is all about linking to other pages, well... that looks pitiful.

Soo... any takers?

bourdelson
01-09-2007, 05:02 PM
Are you looking for something like CuteNews, perhaps?

http://www.cutephp.com

You insert it into your page using a PHP include, the easiest of the PHP functions. :D

GameDesigner
01-20-2007, 05:19 AM
Okay well there lies a problem with that..

When I post news to it, then you click on the headline, the page expands.. But the background gradient image does not. What I want is the background image it sits on to expand as well.

I dunno if I can show you what I'm talking about... wait, yeah I can.

CuteNews problem (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v172/Dark_Messiah/buttons/cutenewserror.gif)

So how do I fix that?

EDIT:
Oh yeah.. You'll see by the comment box "demption" which is supposed to be a scrolling marquee... yeah. And in the post there is a not-so-nice word (nothing too major, just the "d" word).

Arwen
01-20-2007, 08:21 AM
When I post news to it, then you click on the headline, the page expands..

Change that to a pop up. Options >> System Configuration >> Comments >> Show Comments In PopUp. (Don't worry, pop up blockers won't block it)

GameDesigner
01-20-2007, 10:52 PM
But that's for the comments - I'm talking about the entire article. There's a way to make that background gradient expand with the article. If I just do that thing for the comments, I can still make a long post news thing and it'll be back to square one again.