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blog stuff for the average bear?

Gillian Densmore
Hi all after a bit of proding from the famly and one of them making a
domain for me it has come to my attention they thought it'd be nice if
in the process of seting up my website I added a blog.
I'm kinda stuck to what solution to use!
i've checked out wordpress in the past and theming it made my eyes glaze over.
Some reviews swear by drupal.
Any thoughts for the average bear?

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Re: blog stuff for the average bear?

Russ Abbott
I've been posting more on Google+ than on my blog.  Don't know if I'll continue, but it's a nice change. (If anyone wants an invitation, let me know.)
 
-- Russ Abbott
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  California State University, Los Angeles

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On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Gillian Densmore <[hidden email]> wrote:
Hi all after a bit of proding from the famly and one of them making a
domain for me it has come to my attention they thought it'd be nice if
in the process of seting up my website I added a blog.
I'm kinda stuck to what solution to use!
i've checked out wordpress in the past and theming it made my eyes glaze over.
Some reviews swear by drupal.
Any thoughts for the average bear?

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Re: blog stuff for the average bear?

Greg Sonnenfeld
Hello,

I'd give Wordpress a try again. Themeing is very simple if you just
download one of the hundreds of available templates. You can download
and activate them from the wordpress control panel. Then changing the
main or background picture is as easy as uploading a photo under the
header menu.

Most of the other CMS solutions seemed more complex and overly
complicated when compared to wordpress.

My solution would be to download LAMP/MAMP or WAMP, copy over
wordpress, then find a theme you like. Presto your done except for
blog content.


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Greg Sonnenfeld


"Junior programmers create simple solutions to simple problems. Senior
programmers create complex solutions to complex problems. Great
programmers find simple solutions to complex problems. The code
written by topnotch programmers may appear obvious, once it is
finished, but it is vastly more difficult to create."





On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Russ Abbott <[hidden email]> wrote:

> I've been posting more on Google+ than on my blog.  Don't know if I'll
> continue, but it's a nice change. (If anyone wants an invitation, let me
> know.)
>
> -- Russ Abbott
> _____________________________________________
>   Professor, Computer Science
>   California State University, Los Angeles
>
>   Google voice: 747-999-5105
>   blog: http://russabbott.blogspot.com/
>   vita:  http://sites.google.com/site/russabbott/
> _____________________________________________
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Gillian Densmore <[hidden email]>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all after a bit of proding from the famly and one of them making a
>> domain for me it has come to my attention they thought it'd be nice if
>> in the process of seting up my website I added a blog.
>> I'm kinda stuck to what solution to use!
>> i've checked out wordpress in the past and theming it made my eyes glaze
>> over.
>> Some reviews swear by drupal.
>> Any thoughts for the average bear?
>>
>> ============================================================
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>> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
>> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
>
>
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Re: blog stuff for the average bear?

Robert J. Cordingley
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Gillian:

You could try iWeb - "Web design for the rest of us" - http://www.apple.com/ilife/iweb/  It's part of iLife and may already be on your Mac.  There's a real simple blog template.
"iWeb features ready-made templates for welcome, about me, photo album, movie, blog, and podcast pages. Create as many pages as you like."
Apple provides some 9 widgets including YouTube, Google Maps, mobileMe gallery...   If you need more sophistications with categories, tags, archives and other WordPress flora and fauna, well then you may have to try WordPress again.  Hope this helps.
Thanks
Robert
cirrillian.com


On 7/28/11 3:03 PM, Gillian Densmore wrote:
Hi all after a bit of proding from the famly and one of them making a
domain for me it has come to my attention they thought it'd be nice if
in the process of seting up my website I added a blog.
I'm kinda stuck to what solution to use!
i've checked out wordpress in the past and theming it made my eyes glaze over.
Some reviews swear by drupal.
Any thoughts for the average bear?

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