Hello,
Purchased Freeway 3.5 some time ago and never got past the experimenting stage.
I now want to get started properly! Can I use Freeway to build a blog?
Thanks in advance for any advice.
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Dear Nettie
Well in the sense of self publishing as a journal or regular articles of
course - But honestly the free blogging sites online make it so easy that
unless there were very very special reasons why - I wouldn’t use Freeway to
do this. I might use a site(s) in Freeway that link to the blog and also are
linked from the blog.
is one I use. You can be running in a few minutes.
hope this helps
regards
Brian
nettie edwards said recently:
Hello,
Purchased Freeway 3.5 some time ago and never got past the experimenting
stage.
I now want to get started properly! Can I use Freeway to build a blog?
Thanks in advance for any advice.
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Sometime around 5/11/07 (at 05:56 -0500) nettie edwards said:
Hello,
Purchased Freeway 3.5 some time ago and never got past the
experimenting stage.
Hi Nettie, welcome to the party. 
If you’re still using Freeway 3.5 I strongly suggest that you
consider upgrading to Freeway 4. We’re at version 4.4 now, the new
Leopard-ready version, and it is a major step forwards from where
things were back in the 3.x days.
If you’re not ready to do that just yet, please make sure you’re
running the last version of Freeway 3, which is version 3.5.15. See
http://www.softpress.com/support/updates.php for details.
I now want to get started properly! Can I use Freeway to build a blog?
True blogs are run using content management systems (server-driven
databases), server-based scripts, and CSS-based page template
fragments. These can be as simple to use as Blogger, as rich in
options as Wordpress, or as hand-rolled as you like with tools such
as ExpressionEngine and the like.
Where Freeway comes into the equation is at the template end of
things. But to do this effectively you’ll need to know CSS pretty
well, to the point of dissecting your Freeway layouts into the
appropriate fragments, massaging the code, and using the results in
your blog setup. As you can imagine, this ain’t simple!
If you’re not quite at this level yet I suggest tackling this on one
of two different ways. This means either:
Just picking the ready-made blog template that you like best, and
sticking to nothing more complex than swapping graphics to help the
appearance fit your own site designs better, or
Making your blog the manual way, using Freeway to create new pages
(one for each post) and adding links to the new pages as you go.
Option 1 will give you the most reliable results and, once things are
set up, take far less work to manage.
Does anyone have any other suggestions?
k
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