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Adding news to your site - a easy way? by Vilkku on 09-01-2004 at 03:22 PM
The subject says it all, is there a easier way to add first-page news to your site instead of opening the whole page in an editor and add the news? Also, how do you get the option to add comments? Thanks 
RE: Adding news to your site - a easy way? by bach_m on 09-01-2004 at 03:29 PM
well, you would have to use a blog software. I use Wordpress, which is PHP and MySQL based. but requires a server with htose technologies. For a free, HTML based version, you can use blogger, which can publish to any domain that has FTP access..
RE: Adding news to your site - a easy way? by Vilkku on 09-01-2004 at 03:40 PM
How customizeable is Blogger? Will I be able to add news something like Neowin (with a title, picture and then the text)? And is it possible to add a own layout?
EDIT: And I have PHP but not mySQL, is there any Blogs that only need that?
RE: Adding news to your site - a easy way? by .blade// on 09-01-2004 at 04:46 PM
Also, some good PHP programs for the sort of thing can be found at http://www.fusionphp.org
RE: Adding news to your site - a easy way? by fluffy_lobster on 09-01-2004 at 08:51 PM
Blogger isn't that versatile from what i've seen, because you're pinned down by storage on the blogger servers. A php script like bblog is much better
RE: Adding news to your site - a easy way? by DJeX on 09-02-2004 at 03:46 AM
CuteNews works great. It's php. Easy Setup and fully customizable. It has an online admin so you just have to sign in, add news, save and there you go. http://cutephp.com/cutenews/
RE: Adding news to your site - a easy way? by bach_m on 09-02-2004 at 04:01 AM
blogger can upload by FTP to any site. at least it used to. and you can edit the way everything is displayed.
most software are gonna need a database, as it is much faster and easier than a flat file system... find out if you have ANY database, as that is the most important thing.
Having said that, I love wordpress. its fast, simple, has a KICK ASS admin interface, and is being actively developed (bblog isn't)
RE: Adding news to your site - a easy way? by Vilkku on 09-02-2004 at 03:52 PM
I tried Blogger, works with FTP so all files are on my space. Looks pretty editeable, so I guess I might choose it. I'll try CuteNews and Bblog, too. FusionNews didn't let me stay logged in in the admin panel 
Looks like I won't try Bblog, needs mySQL.
EDIT: Okey, CuteNews is great and I'm now doing my site with it. One question: is there a way to get the avatar for the article cut to the text, or do I have to use the IMG tag when I post?
RE: Adding news to your site - a easy way? by DJeX on 09-02-2004 at 04:05 PM
You may heve to use tables or what I did is I stuck my picture in a layer. So I just lined up my text to the right with a space big enough to the left to fit the picture.
RE: Adding news to your site - a easy way? by Vilkku on 09-02-2004 at 04:09 PM
Sounds intresting. Care to explain more in-detail?
RE: Adding news to your site - a easy way? by DJeX on 09-02-2004 at 05:43 PM
quote:
On Today at 04:19 AM, Vilkku wrote:
Sounds intresting. Care to explain more in-detail?
Well sure. Ok I've made you up a template to make it easyer for you. What program do you use to edit and create your web pages?
The template is attached to this post.
Just view the code and you should be able to see what makes it up. It's very simple and if you open it in Front Page you will be able to see what the table and layer looks like.
Here's the code:
code:
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<title>your text goes here your text go</title>
</head>
<body>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="536" height="133">
<!-- MSTableType="layout" -->
<tr>
<td valign="top" width="102">
<!-- MSCellType="DecArea" -->
<div style="position: absolute; width: 100px; height: 100px; z-index: 1; left: 8px; top: 23px" id="layer1">
<img border="0" src="goteuro.jpg" width="97" height="97"></div>
<p> </p>
</td>
<td valign="top" height="133" width="434">
<!-- MSCellType="ContentHead" -->
your text goes here your text goes here your text goes here your text
goes here your text goes here your text goes here your text goes here
your text goes here your text goes here your text goes here your text
goes here your text goes here your text goes here your text goes here
your text goes here your text goes here your text goes here your text
goes hereyour text goes here</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
To get it into your CuteNews edit the code above or the template I attached then just copy and paste that edited code when you start a new story (News article). I can't remember for sure, havent used it in a while. But there should be a spot when you go to post new news where you can paste your own code.
RE: Adding news to your site - a easy way? by Vilkku on 09-02-2004 at 05:47 PM
Well, this wasn't what I was looking for. There is a much easier way to that. I mean the templates.