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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

Might be stating the obvious here, but have you tried blogger ?
if simple (and free) is what your after...
https://www.blogger.com/start

looks nice but the the blog text itself needs to sit as part of the main website - not within the blogger.com domain

hmm, actually the "Advanced Blog Setup" looks intresting...

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?

I'm sure I did something similar using Drupal many years ago

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

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.

now why the hell didnt i think of that

Quiff Boy wrote:

now why the hell didnt i think of that

one day you will, young padawan learner