This thread goes back some way. It appears that nobody found the ideal solution for integrating a blog into their website, so I was wondering whether there has been any success since the release of Freeway 5.5?
I have no technical knowledge of web design, so would prefer a simple, copy-and-paste option within Freeway Pro, if that’s possible. Alternatively, do you know of an online tutorial that’s easy to follow, that would give me a similar result to http://www.pippinbarr.com/inininoutoutout ?
Some burning questions: What’s the diff between what’s formally called a blog and simple chunks of text on a page that each have a comments script attached? A designer could then set up a column of links for archiving… can’t we call that a blog?
Are we most concerned that it will work well with search engines? How will they know if such a custom design is not formally a blog (if it indeed isn’t)?
At least then there’s an alternate to those crummy generic templates.
I am not concerned about that google stuff cause as far as I can see is Freeway does a brilliant job regarding SEO if you follow a few simple rules.
Both solutions (and of course some others too) would be without problem to be set up for a “third person” without sharing to much case-sensitive passwords.
Is this freeway + webyep made? I really like it. I cant understand what you in that, and its a pity, because I suppose you explain somethings you have used. Is there any english version?
I would say the most important difference is an RSS feed. I read many blogs but never visit the actual web sites. An RSS feed distributes your content to readers how they want to view it. Especially on mobile devices.
David
On 14 Apr 2012, at 06:15, “Joe” email@hidden wrote:
What’s the diff between what’s formally called a blog and simple chunks of text on a page that each have a comments script attached?
Thomas,
Could you tell me how to create an Archive for a blog created in Freeway with Disqus and WebYep. I know how to do everything except the Archive.
Referring to your post on 14 Apr 2012
The archive is the web yep-menu, which allows you to create the new page-instances (blog-entries) that are each naturally then collected by the menu.
One of the downsides of this method is the missing TAG opportunity and a missing excerpt page (such as read more).
So it’s a simple small nearby-solution.
Max has another method. He’s creating the “read-more page” by using loops with the wy-read more action (which is here creating the new page-instances for you). This looks more blog-like, but here the archive is this read-more page.
The combination of them both is not possible - but would be pretty cool.
I read your other thread as well (blogger):
I think you should anyway see the blogger-world separated from the rest of the page, having nothing to do with the “general” created static webpage. All you need is a common page css-menu (static) which let you switch elegant between them.
The downside here (however this is not my personal concern):
You have to send your client to create a new blog-entry to the blogger world while general page-changings have to be made in the WebYep-World.
