On 11/30/06, Matt Savarino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com <videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com>, > "Deirdre Straughan" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > FWIW, I run my website www.beginningwithi.com as a website, because I > > started it that way years ago, and I don't like the lack of navigational > > structure in (default) blog templates. > > You can "theme" your blog templates to look however you want. > I agree standard page design is boring. > There is a common nav (dates) for blogs. > Most sites use the same layout... > top-horizontal nav w/ a left-right vertical nav. >
It's not just that, it's that blogs don't allow for the kind of information architecture I am used to doing, or at least they don't without a lot more work on templates than I am able to do. I find it difficult to impossible to find older articles on most blogs, and I don't want that to happen to my readers. My material doesn't go out of date, so it all needs to be easy to find. Plus, even if I wanted to, it would be a hell of a lot of work to port my site to a blog format now - the site has been running for 5 and a half years, with over 600 pages and more being added daily. So I appreciate the offer of help, but it's not worth it to me - I've got what I want for now. Just need to figure out some wrinkles like how to hand-code images into my RSS feed so that they show up in feed readers, as a teaser for when I do photo spreads. Another advantage to doing my site the way I do it is that I can work on it without a live Internet connection. Since I commute by train over two hours each day, I can use that time to write and otherwise prepare pages for the site, then I get to the office or home, hop online, and FTP all the changed pages to the site. There are virtues in being old-fashioned. <grin> > > > > I did try a third-party comment app similar to the one mentioned > > a year or so back, but it does not embed comments in the page, > > so my own kludge solution is just about as good. > > The app mentioned was WordPress and that is what you are using. > No, it was something else that installed as javascript and then popped up a window, very similar to the newer app described in the article someone linked to. I abandoned that in favor of WP some months ago. It would be much better to use a data-driven app. > WP is a great content management system for blogging. > > For example, you have this page running within WordPress... > http://www.beginningwithi.com/comments/2006/09/22/wosa-na-reunion-2006/ > > But the post body is just a link to your full (HTML) post here... > http://www.beginningwithi.com/Woodstock/wosana2006.html > > That HTML post could easily be posted within WordPress. > And the WP design can be the same as on your HTML pages. > Comments would then be inline with the post. > WordPress offers a ton more add-on modules. > > How many old HTML posts do you have (quick guess)? > > I use Dreamhost too and could help set this up on a sub-domain of yours. > The only issue would be you'd have a lot of copy/pasting to do. > > Once the posts are in WordPress (a database), > your blogging process will be easier. > > If you are just having template problems, > feel free to email me or post here. > > - Matt > http://vlogmap.org > > > -- best regards, Deirdré Straughan www.beginningwithi.com (personal) www.tvblob.com (work) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
