A few questions about blogs.

@johndoe190May 11.2004

I was in the thought that i would create a blog and im curious and have a few wee questions.

1.Does anybody know any good step-by step blog tutorials.
2.What languages do you need on the server if any at all.
3.Is the blog parsed by the server does this mean that if youre coding it offline you cant view the changes.
4.Could you set up the blog say that a user without any knowledge of computers could upload a passage of text to the news sections.
5.Also take ryan brills blog for example under every article he writes hes got say 14 comments or 0 comments does each article he writes have a specific id or something.

Hope you can get the jist of what i mean.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

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@spufiMay 11.2004 — #

1. Any half way decent Blogging tool will have some type of help system for any questions. I use WordPress and they even have a forum.

2. It depends on the Blogging tool. If you make it yourself, then that's different. Pretty much any server side language would work. For WP you need access to PHP(and MySQL). I'm not sure what is need for something like Blogger, but since you can use Blogspot to host it, you don't really need to worry about Bloggers requirements. I think Blogger uses a language that's common enough to where finding a host to support it is easy.

3. If you make changes offline, you need a server on your computer and the same Blogging tool and whatnot to mimic the online environment to see the changes. Even then, you still need to upload the changes for them to become active.

4. Most Blogging tools are very computer ignorant friendly.

5. Basically yes. I would have to double check how Ryan does it, but usually the link to that specific post is in the title of the post, or in the datestamp. If you need something like <div id="p20040512"> and it isn't provided, I'm sure it would be an easy fix if you can edit the code that generated the page.

@PeOfEoMay 12.2004 — #I am working on a blog system with asp.net as part of a cms I am making and it takes it one step further, each post will have an id, each comment will have an id, and each user will have an id. I will setup my own sort of db inheritance, posts by a user will get his is, then commpents to that post will get the posts id, so when you click a user his posts are shown, then you can get the comments from there. It is how you can make a blog system with many users, like a live journal type of thing.

@johndoe190authorMay 12.2004 — #Hey thanks guys i think im going to use something like WP or blogger just now to i get a better just of things.

Thanks again

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