Hi,
Assuming I am not looking for any commenting feature to the blog, what is the difference between all these special blog programs and sites to create a blog, FW actions, etc, and just having a single HMTL document that I type in that has a title, date and info for my readers?
Thanks,
Barry
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If you plan to make more than the occasional post, then a real blog will allow you to have a structure where new posts are surfaced on the home page, and gradually make their way into the archives, where they may be browsed by the date you posted them. It is entirely possible to create this structure in Freeway without any server-side software (traditional blogging tools) but it is an enormous pain in the ass to do so.
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On Dec 21, 2014, at 1:26 PM, Hoffkids email@hidden wrote:
Hi,
Assuming I am not looking for any commenting feature to the blog, what is the difference between all these special blog programs and sites to create a blog, FW actions, etc, and just having a single HMTL document that I type in that has a title, date and info for my readers?Thanks,
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Walt,
All I want to do is every once in a while (1 time per week or when needed), tell my visitors (students, parents, anyone else) what has changed on the site or something happening on Hoffkids.
This idea came to me as I got an email yesterday that my guestbook company has gone out of business after 15 yrs. I have always had to places that said sign guestbook and read guestbook. 1,200 posts viewed 40,000 times since it began.
I also use Disqus for comments, so this is probably better the GB is done as now I will have 1 simple place,
but I thought of the blog idea to start a place on the site to simply tell about things that have changed and new additins to Hoffkids.
thinking just a single HTML text box dressed up
good for this need?
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Github, Basecamp – lots of other software-as-a-service platforms that I have used over the years – all have something similar to this. A message appears at the top of the page, with a little (x) button in it where you can hide it once you’ve read it, with the latest updates about the service (planned maintenance on XX date, that sort of thing).
I don’t know of a service you could set up for this without a little programming on your part. In order to do it well (so it’s not annoying people unnecessarily) you need to have a way for your visitors to dismiss it once, and never see it again until the message changes. This always means a database of some sort, and some programming. If you want to learn how to do that, ask the question on Dynamo, and one of us there can help you get started.
Walter
On Dec 21, 2014, at 1:54 PM, Hoffkids email@hidden wrote:
Walt,
All I want to do is every once in a while (1 time per week or when needed), tell my visitors (students, parents, anyone else) what has changed on the site or something happening on Hoffkids.
This idea came to me as I got an email yesterday that my guestbook company has gone out of business after 15 yrs. I have always had to places that said sign guestbook and read guestbook. 1,200 posts viewed 40,000 times since it began.
I also use Disqus for comments, so this is probably better the GB is done as now I will have 1 simple place,
but I thought of the blog idea to start a place on the site to simply tell about things that have changed and new additins to Hoffkids.
thinking just a single HTML text box dressed up
good for this need?
Barry
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Thanks Walt…
I was thinking of much simpler but now you have me thinking more (again!)
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I think a proper blog, even a simple one, is a better idea than a text box.
Unless you intend to show only one post at a time (presumably deleting older/previous posts) then even a post/week will add up fairly quickly, with no easy way for visitors to search older content. Think UX (user-experience). Most blogs by design are very structured and as such have built-in tools to make your job of publishing and managing much easier, some more than others. And if that weren’t enough all that structured content is gobbled-up by search engines.
Honestly, with so many blogging options available with different levels of features I can’t fathom why anyone would want to go the vanilla html box route. Your one-post-per-week may not be much but it’s waaayy more than I post to mine and I would never consider not using a blog.
Todd
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but I thought of the blog idea to start a place on the site to simply tell about things that have changed and new additins to Hoffkids.
thinking just a single HTML text box dressed up
good for this need?
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Thanks Todd,
I appreciate that. I guess like always you have to look at your purpose or target.
I spent much time setting it up last night as only a single HTML document that looks just like blog sites and I hope it will serve the exact purpose.
As far older posts go and getting to them, I did start to think about that last night (before you mentioned it), but I thought maybe I will just anchor those posts and if I need to send that info to a student or parent directly I could. I am not looking for general public to search about new features of the site and hope they find it as bloggers do I guess.
I think what you described is surely better for real blogging, I guess my need is more of an ongoing informational page of new happening on the site for my visitors; not applying to strangers out there.
Thanks for opening up the dialogue on this for me.
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Todd,
can you please share you blog link so I can matchup with what you were saying?
Tanks,
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My host seems to be having issues at the moment so you may not get through but here it is, https://xiiro.com/musings https://xiiro.com/musings.
Todd
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Todd,
can you please share you blog link so I can matchup with what you were saying?
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