SD Blogs/SDFN
Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2006 00:57
Heya pals! We haven't used the forum for a good while, but... I've been talking with vrap about running a blog (he runs a really fun one at http://nebulousmaterial.blogspot.com/) and I've been trying out different variations of WordPress and its plugins only to become slightly disassociated and disillusioned with the administration and templating issues.
At first I was contemplating sharing several blogs with other authors to keep the blogs personal enough, all the while having a "general" blog that contains the actual "FastNews" service blogs - whatever that is.
What I'm saying is that the blog system Smeagol wrote originally for us is really pretty damn snazzy. It's simple and very down-to-earth. I really do like it a lot compared to the hell-hole messes that are other blog systems, though naturally it took me a while to once again realize that bigger is worse when it comes to administration.
It does, however, lack certain features that we might expect, namely, smart urls (piece of cake, even I've done that),
trackback/pingback,
categories (tags if you will) and
a wysiwyg system.
I'd also imagine it would be easy to make it so that you could set posts as "private", i.e., a category for posts that you want to keep only to your user page.
We could also perhaps integrate the files system over so you can easily add images and such.
Are you guys still in if we try something like this? I haven't asked - in a while - if you guys would still blog with me in case we get something like this going ^_^
Links for development:
OS trackback: http://phptrackback.sourceforge.net/
TinyMCE
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tinymce/
http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/
FCKEditor
http://www.fckeditor.net/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/fckeditor/
General list of WYSIWYG editors
http://geniisoft.com/showcase.nsf/WebEditors
At first I was contemplating sharing several blogs with other authors to keep the blogs personal enough, all the while having a "general" blog that contains the actual "FastNews" service blogs - whatever that is.
What I'm saying is that the blog system Smeagol wrote originally for us is really pretty damn snazzy. It's simple and very down-to-earth. I really do like it a lot compared to the hell-hole messes that are other blog systems, though naturally it took me a while to once again realize that bigger is worse when it comes to administration.
It does, however, lack certain features that we might expect, namely, smart urls (piece of cake, even I've done that),
trackback/pingback,
categories (tags if you will) and
a wysiwyg system.
I'd also imagine it would be easy to make it so that you could set posts as "private", i.e., a category for posts that you want to keep only to your user page.
We could also perhaps integrate the files system over so you can easily add images and such.
Are you guys still in if we try something like this? I haven't asked - in a while - if you guys would still blog with me in case we get something like this going ^_^
Links for development:
OS trackback: http://phptrackback.sourceforge.net/
TinyMCE
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tinymce/
http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/
FCKEditor
http://www.fckeditor.net/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/fckeditor/
General list of WYSIWYG editors
http://geniisoft.com/showcase.nsf/WebEditors