[_] Blogging(?) Software (Was: Open CMS systems)
Paul Deane
Paul.Deane at aardman.com
Tue Oct 3 12:35:05 BST 2006
<emerging from under rock>
I've used typepad a couple of times for quick turnaround sites / blogs
and its is very good, albeit limited of course. "Can we set up a website
for all the crew on project X to keep them informed of future projects
when they leave". 30mins later.....
And then you drift into site builders like http://www.homestead.com/
which probably gets a few [_]'ers spitting feathers. But they have their
place.
HOWEVER I can only just get people to update typepad sites internally.
They still almost always ring up first asking if we can do it for them.
Its not technically difficult, people just don't want to bother to
learn.
P
>.
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From: underscore-bounces at under-score.org.uk
[mailto:underscore-bounces at under-score.org.uk] On Behalf Of Tim Beadle
Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 12:00 PM
To: underscore at under-score.org.uk
Subject: Re: [_] Blogging(?) Software (Was: Open CMS systems)
On 03/10/06, Laura Griffiths <laura.griffiths at gmail.com> wrote:
> Am now thinking WordPress or TypePad would be sufficient, does anyone
> have any comments/suggestions on one over the other?
Wordpress: free (beer & speech). PHP/MySQL hosting required. Dead easy
to install.
Typepad: not free in either sense, but it's a hosted solution that
requires zero technical input from the user.
Movable Type: free (beer only). CGI Perl hosting required (plus,
optionally, PHP and either PostgreSQL or MySQL). Sixapart have seemingly
lost the plot wrt the humble blogger as they strive to become the
enterprise blogging platform of choice.
Or there's Textpattern (which I used to use but jumped to Wordpress a
while ago). Similar to Wordpress (PHP+MySQL).
HTH,
Tim
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I've used typepad a couple of times for quick turnaround sites / blogs
and its is very good, albeit limited of course. "Can we set up a website
for all the crew on project X to keep them informed of future projects
when they leave". 30mins later.....
And then you drift into site builders like http://www.homestead.com/
which probably gets a few [_]'ers spitting feathers. But they have their
place.
HOWEVER I can only just get people to update typepad sites internally.
They still almost always ring up first asking if we can do it for them.
Its not technically difficult, people just don't want to bother to
learn.
P
>.
-----Original Message-----
From: underscore-bounces at under-score.org.uk
[mailto:underscore-bounces at under-score.org.uk] On Behalf Of Tim Beadle
Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 12:00 PM
To: underscore at under-score.org.uk
Subject: Re: [_] Blogging(?) Software (Was: Open CMS systems)
On 03/10/06, Laura Griffiths <laura.griffiths at gmail.com> wrote:
> Am now thinking WordPress or TypePad would be sufficient, does anyone
> have any comments/suggestions on one over the other?
Wordpress: free (beer & speech). PHP/MySQL hosting required. Dead easy
to install.
Typepad: not free in either sense, but it's a hosted solution that
requires zero technical input from the user.
Movable Type: free (beer only). CGI Perl hosting required (plus,
optionally, PHP and either PostgreSQL or MySQL). Sixapart have seemingly
lost the plot wrt the humble blogger as they strive to become the
enterprise blogging platform of choice.
Or there's Textpattern (which I used to use but jumped to Wordpress a
while ago). Similar to Wordpress (PHP+MySQL).
HTH,
Tim
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