Freeway blogging addition.

I have been searching through the archives here as well as the Freeway Knowledge Base regarding adding a blog section to a website. There have been a lot of interesting ways to attack the issue mentioned, but not much with regards to recreating the look and feel of a website in a blog addition. Does anyone have any experience with modifying or creating templates in (for example) WordPress? (My Freeway created website uses the Minimalistik template.)

I would probably chose WordPress as I have the greatest amount of documentation on WP, but don’t really have much experience with manually editing/creating HTML or CSS. Would the process be similar to the tutorial at this URL?

http://www.e-learningfoundry.com

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While WordPress is very widely used, and thus very well documented,
you might want to take a look at some of the other offerings that
have better Freeway support. (WP is just about the most un-Freeway
way to go, second maybe only to Joomla.)

Joe Muscara and Max have both written Actions to make it much simpler
to work with Expression Engine, sNews, and others. The Big Erns has a
blog which is running on sNews, I think. Have a troll through the
search engine on the Forum, and you should turn up plenty of results
on this.

WP and anything like it will require you to do much hand-editing of
HTML and CSS, and from the sounds of things, you need to work in the
opposite direction – adding blogginess into your Freeway document
rather than chopping up your Freeway-generated code and sprinkling it
into your content management system.

Walter

On Dec 21, 2007, at 2:13 PM, globetrotterdk wrote:

I have been searching through the archives here as well as the
Freeway Knowledge Base regarding adding a blog section to a
website. There have been a lot of interesting ways to attack the
issue mentioned, but not much with regards to recreating the look
and feel of a website in a blog addition. Does anyone have any
experience with modifying or creating templates in (for example)
WordPress? (My Freeway created website uses the Minimalistik
template.)

I would probably chose WordPress as I have the greatest amount of
documentation on WP, but don’t really have much experience with
manually editing/creating HTML or CSS. Would the process be similar
to the tutorial at this URL?

http://www.e-learningfoundry.com

Cheers


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Hi Walter,

WebYep and the Freeway action seems quite interesting, but I am not really sure how the final result would work, when I just want a blog.

Expression Engine is just too darn expensive for a bloke like myself trying to start a one man consultancy firm and include a blog on the site. From what I have seen with regards to postings in the forum on sNews and Freeway, you need to have to really dig into the guts to get it working properly.

I have looked at Simple PHP Blog, but they seem to be having upgrade issues on their own site, so that isn’t exactly a recommendation for a newbie like myself. I have also looked at something called Comander… (?), but I am unsure how much it can do (the example site is down) and if it will work with Freeway 4.4.1 Pro.

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why not just use a free web blog site and link to it - and back from it?
This is brainless.
You may be able to make a template in freeway to tie in the look an feel -
with a little help from your friends.
all the best
Brian

globetrotterdk said recently:

Hi Walter,

WebYep and the Freeway action seems quite interesting, but I am not really
sure how the final result would work, when I just want a blog.

Expression Engine is just too darn expensive for a bloke like myself trying to
start a one man consultancy firm and include a blog on the site. From what I
have seen with regards to postings in the forum on sNews and Freeway, you need
to have to really dig into the guts to get it working properly.

I have looked at Simple PHP Blog, but they seem to be having upgrade issues on
their own site, so that isn’t exactly a recommendation for a newbie like
myself. I have also looked at something called Comander… (?), but I am
unsure how much it can do (the example site is down) and if it will work with
Freeway 4.4.1 Pro.

Cheers


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Hi Bin-Ra,

This is absolutely another alternative. The question is, which service is easiest to tie a Freeway template into? Then there is also the issue of commercial use.

With the increased usage and popularity of blogs on the Internet, I really don’t understand why Freeway doesn’t provide this feature out of the box, like Sandvox, RapidWeaver and iWeb.


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I haven’t done this so I don’t know.
I just used a standard template of the blog service and linked to it with a
normal hyperlink. So it runs parallel and as an extension - but not
altogether ‘integrated’.
Others might chime in.
Any blog service that lets you use custom templates should do. Then its
finding what do do with the html output of the page that Freeway makes.
Shouldnt be too tricky.

all the best
Brian

globetrotterdk said recently:

Hi Bin-Ra,

This is absolutely another alternative. The question is, which service is
easiest to tie a Freeway template into? Then there is also the issue of
commercial use.

With the increased usage and popularity of blogs on the Internet, I really
don’t understand why Freeway doesn’t provide this feature out of the box, like
Sandvox, RapidWeaver and iWeb.


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Well, one of the reasons to have links is to have backlinks. So if you link a blogger blog into your website do the backlinks that may occur link to the blog or the web site?

Dave Hill


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The easiest has to be Blogger templates if you’re looking for the easier and low-cost project solution. I used Blogger for a while, but gave up on it. Since you want a simple blog and nothing beyond what a super CMS would offer, then I’d suggest investigating Blogger.

There’s a Freeway Moments video on how to get started with it.


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Dan,

Why did you give it up?

ALso, how do you have your blog right on your site?

THank you

Julie
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The easiest has to be Blogger templates if you’re looking for the easier and low-cost project solution. I used Blogger for a while, but gave up on it. Since you want a simple blog and nothing beyond what a super CMS would offer, then I’d suggest investigating Blogger.

There’s a Freeway Moments video on how to get started with it.


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Hi,

For something very simple might not the Pulse blog option not do.

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Hey all, regular reader but not much of a poster. I recently made up a blog using freeway and blogger, though I took a different approach and created a website that would work around the blog, not a blog that would work with a website. The site’s not perfect, but it certainly works well - in most browsers :wink:

http://www.canadianhuntress.com


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Dan, Why did you give it up? Also, how do you have your blog right on your site? Thank you.

I gave up on it because I wanted to have my own domain name. It was also because I wanted to be able to do more with Blogger beyond just a single template. It served its purpose. As for the blog on my site I use ExpressionEngine and a handful of extensions and modules for it.

I’m in site conversion mode these days into ExpressionEngine 2, so we’ll see what happens.


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