Thanks for the recommendations, Barney. I've thought about hosting Wordpress. I have my own VPS with Win 2003, CF 8, and MySQL 5, so hosting's not an issue. It's more about how I'd like to spend my time...learning PHP :o/ , which I'll probably never use, or more about CF, with which I earn my daily bread.
And, yes, I know nothing about pingback, trackback, and can only imagine a little of what spam filtering would entail... Pros and cons. Rick > -----Original Message----- > From: Barney Boisvert [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 4:04 PM > To: cf-talk > Subject: Re: Anybody out there comtemplating or currently building their own > blog? > > Look and feel is the easiest to tweak, just reskin the engine. The > functionality is the hard part, because conceptually a blog is really > simple (add/edit post, add comment), but if you just have that it's > really unworkable. You need pingback, trackback, and spam filtering. > You need to deal with taxonomy (categories or tags, your choice). You > have to deal with generating XML feeds. Search is required, as are > various listing styles. Perhaps you want a post calendar in your > sidebar. The list goes on and on. > > My recommendation would be to grab WordPress and host it yourself. > You can get PHP/MySQL hosting for like $5 a month, maybe even less, > and that'll give you full control on your own domain. You get a > widely used platform with all kinds of plugins and themes already > available, and the ability to custom create more if you need them. > Yes, it's PHP, but the platform is worth the language pain. If you > want CFML, grab BlogCFC or MangoBlog and you can reskin the top. I've > not done that myself, so I have no idea what that would entail (i.e. > whether there are clean theme plugin points), but it shouldn't be too > hard to synthesize. I know Sean Corfield wrote a Fusebox frontend for > BlogCFC, so it's at least possible. > > cheers, > barneyb > > On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Rick Faircloth > <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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:317558 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
