Hi, Barney... I knew that would be the first response I'd get.
I'm just (at this point) creating a blogging site for myself. I've very picky about the look of the site and I've been disappointed by what I've found. The blogging sites typically have plenty of functionality, but are lacking in design choices. And the designs I'm interested usually aren't very finely tuned...things don't line up well, widgets are poorly designed, etc. Wordpress would be good if I wanted to run their software, but if I just wanted to use a blog on Wordpress.org, I'd have to pay $15 per year to tweak the CSS, $30 per year for no ads on the site, and another $15 per year to map my own domain. $60 per year...no thanks. Not too impressed by Blogspot, or Blogger, or any of the others I've seen. Functionality is fine, but the blogs just don't look very good. I've looked at BlogCFC and there are no good out-of-the-box styles or themes, and working on the code the way Ray has coded it seems to be too much of a chore. Too much I'm not familiar with. I just figured I'd just write some basic webware to start, then add functionality to it as I went along. I've downloaded BlogCFC and recreated the database in MySQL. Unless I want to go crazy with functionality, it doesn't seem like it would be much of a chore...forms to enter blogs, comments, categories, tags, etc. I was just wondering if there was anyone who was thinking about doing the same or was already underway. > -----Original Message----- > From: Barney Boisvert [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 3:06 PM > To: cf-talk > Subject: Re: Anybody out there comtemplating or currently building their own > blog? > > Just my opinion, but unless you have a crazy-specialized use case, > writing blogging software is the wrong choice. There are so many > choices out there, and many (most?) are open source so they can be > customized. Almost no reason to start from scratch. > > cheers, > barneyb > > On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Rick Faircloth > <[email protected]> wrote: > > ??? > > > > Rick > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:317549 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
