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has anyone here got much experience of setting up any of the main blogging applications?

eg: wordpress, movable type, expression engine, etc etc

http://asymptomatic.net/blogbreakdown.htm

basically, i need to add a "news" section to a website i do for someone

they need to be able to post news themselves, but they aren't that technical so something with a pretty simple interface would be great

ideally they would also be able to upload images for the posts - these images might also need dynamically resizing on the server, so whatever blog software i use has to be pretty extensible - the photopress addon for wordpress looks quite useful :?:

also, the resulting posts need to be able to be incorporated into an existing page on the site (or at the very least an existing page template), so i dont want something thats basically trying to power the entire site (like expressionengine)

so, any techies or hardcore bloggersout there got any ideas?

i dont have any experience of any of that kind of software so am pretty unaware of the features and/or limitations of each one :D
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Might be stating the obvious here, but have you tried blogger ?
if simple (and free) is what your after...
https://www.blogger.com/start
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looks nice but the the blog text itself needs to sit as part of the main website - not within the blogger.com domain :(
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hmm, actually the "Advanced Blog Setup" looks intresting...
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Quiff Boy wrote: basically, i need to add a "news" section to a website i do for someone
Is Eldo too lazy to do a "vi new-album.html" now? :lol:
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I'm sure I did something similar using Drupal many years ago
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lazarus corporation wrote:I'm sure I did something similar using Drupal many years ago
i'l have a look into that. heard of it but never tried it. ta :)
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To be honest, you could pick any blogging platform, install it in a subdomain of the site, then parse the RSS feed on the news section of the main website.
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:o

now why the hell didnt i think of that :lol:

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Quiff Boy wrote::o

now why the hell didnt i think of that :lol:

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