Easiest Blog Program

[combs84]

Easiest Blog Program UPDATED QUESTION

I wanna insert a blog into some of my sites, and want it to kind of be a web publishing system. The thing is I want to be able to hire writers, and not put the content up myself(cause of how many sites there are) but yet I don't wanna give them account access at the same time.

Obviously a Blog makes sense.

I don't have the skillz to do anything hard, I barely know how to make a table in dreamweaver . So I need something super easy that will do the job. Any ideas what program could help me out and be best suited for me?

Again, Easy to install/setup is the key here.

Thanks in advance.

 

[user-7256]

www.Blogger.com

Or, a lot of people use WordPress... www.WordPress.org

 

[combs84]

You can put the Blogger softwar onto your mainpage of a site? If so is there a link to download that and instructions? I don't see it. Thanks.

WordPress I have heard about as well obviously, is that pretty easy to install do you know?

Thanks for the suggestions.

 

[user-7256]

I've never used WordPress. I like blogger, personally, but WordPress is more powerful.

With Blogger, you can choose Settings -> Publishing for each blog. Select "FTP" and enter your FTP details, and filename details, and there you have it. Each time you publish it goes straight to your own server.

 

[combs84]

Ok last questions.

I notice with wordpress it says my host needs to have mysql. Well my hosting is jacked and only comes with 1 mysql database. I already installed a forum using that. Can I use that same mysql to install these into my sites? Or is it 1 and done and I am gonna have to find a new host.

Any Blog programs that don't anybody knows about?

I may do blogger, I havent figured out how to add my banners ETC to the page though.

Thanks again.

Wow, I just tried Blogger, I'm def gonna use that. Very simple it looks like. Only thing I'm not sure about at this point is how to get the portion I want to be updated in the content place. Also hope it doesn't display my server info for the updater to see. Thanks a lot though.

UPDATE:
OK, so I want to integrate my html into blogger, how do I do this? Which part of the blogger content so I need.

I have my HTML from my site, and the HTML Blogger gives you to start..but which piece do I need to transer from blogger to the one in my site? Kind of stuck right now. Thanks.

 

[JoshHendo]

Blogger is the BEST!! You can change every aspect of itt .

PS. PM me for a way to remove the toolbar at the top =O

As for intergrating html, edit the tempalte, put the HTML in that you want. If you want to make your own template, search google for how to make a blogger template. There are some good tutorials out there

 

[LeetPCUser]

www.blogger.com is extremely easy. You can check out an example of it in action at one of my sites, thecomputershack.net.

Hope this helps!

 

[Brian]

yes you can install wordpress on the same database, just use a different prefix than your forum uses

 

[combs84]

yea I def wen't with blogger, spent last night setting them all up, still need to do a lot of work.

I just decided to insert the banner with one of the templates, as I couldnt figure out how ot integrate it.

Like for instance, one of my sites is
http://www.packergreen.com
and I put the Blog at: http://www.packergreen.com/blog.html

Doesn't look that bad for a newbie.

 

[Blackshear]

I personally use WordPress for my site and love it, highly recommended overall.

 

[RTM]

On a related note - we have set up a lot of blogs for clients using Blogger. Any thoughts on if either one is easier to SEO (Wordpress vs Blogger) ? The latter definitely creates SE friendly static URLs for each posting... just interested in learning about other folks' experiences.

Cheers,

Rob