This isn''t Rails or Ruby related, but I just need some advice and thought I''d ask the bright individuals here. I want to start my own blog but I''m not sure where to begin. I don''t want to get a blogger account because I want to have my own domain. Blogger also doesn''t have many features. My hosting service is 1AND1 so it supports php, cgi and mysql. I''ve looked around at some php blogging tools, but I can''t decide on one. What would everyone recommend? I don''t want anything TOO complicated (like blogcms). The nice ones I''ve seen are Bblog, Serendipity and Nucleus CMS. Are there any Ruby/Rails based ones? But then again, I can''t install Ruby on 1and1, so forget that. I appreciate the feedback. -- - Ramin
Try WordPress, best PHP blog around. Blogger CAN be used with your own domain, they ftp the files to your server. To me with google''s Picasa photo sorting software on Windows and how it can post pictures to Blogger, I love Blogger for simple photography sites. -- Timothy Johnson Found. Interactive Design designfound.com 540-289-3157 On Mar 31, 2005, at 8:34 PM, Ramin wrote: This isn''t Rails or Ruby related, but I just need some advice and thought I''d ask the bright individuals here. I want to start my own blog but I''m not sure where to begin. I don''t want to get a blogger account because I want to have my own domain. Blogger also doesn''t have many features. My hosting service is 1AND1 so it supports php, cgi and mysql. I''ve looked around at some php blogging tools, but I can''t decide on one. What would everyone recommend? I don''t want anything TOO complicated (like blogcms). The nice ones I''ve seen are Bblog, Serendipity and Nucleus CMS. Are there any Ruby/Rails based ones? But then again, I can''t install Ruby on 1and1, so forget that. I appreciate the feedback. -- - Ramin _______________________________________________ Rails mailing list Rails-1W37MKcQCpIf0INCOvqR/iCwEArCW2h5@public.gmane.org lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails
On Mar 31, 2005 7:34 PM, Ramin <i8ramin-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:> This isn''t Rails or Ruby related, but I just need some advice and > thought I''d ask the bright individuals here. I want to start my own > blog but I''m not sure where to begin. I don''t want to get a blogger > account because I want to have my own domain. Blogger also doesn''t > have many features. My hosting service is 1AND1 so it supports php, > cgi and mysql. I''ve looked around at some php blogging tools, but I > can''t decide on one. > > What would everyone recommend? I don''t want anything TOO complicated > (like blogcms). The nice ones I''ve seen are Bblog, Serendipity and > Nucleus CMS. > > Are there any Ruby/Rails based ones? But then again, I can''t install > Ruby on 1and1, so forget that. > > I appreciate the feedback. > --Textpattern''s very simple. Wordpress is very powerful. Either of them would serve you just fine IMHO. -- rick techno-weenie.net
> What would everyone recommend? I don''t want anything TOO complicated > (like blogcms). The nice ones I''ve seen are Bblog, Serendipity and > Nucleus CMS.The "Big Three" are: * MovableType movabletype.com (Perl+MySQL or BerkeleyDB or PostgreSQL; costs money to use) * Textpattern textpattern.com (PHP+MySQL GPL license) * Wordpress wordpress.org (PHP+MySQL... not sure of the license) I''ve found Textpattern to be quite elegant; Wordpress is known to be the PHP hackers'' favorite and all three have great communities supporting it. Don''t think you could go wrong with either of these and it just depends on your requirements.
> * MovableType movabletype.com (Perl+MySQL or BerkeleyDB or PostgreSQL; costs money to use)There''s a free, albeit limited, version. It''s fine for most bloggers. I use it currently because it was easy to set up. -- Phillip Hutchings sitharus.com sitharus-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org / sitharus-QrR4M9swfipWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org
Why not hit Doug Fales ( goud.net ) up for the source of his blog. It uses rails. There was an article about this on linuxjournal.com/article/8217 today. Dave On Fri, 1 Apr 2005 13:45:49 +1200, Phillip Hutchings <sitharus-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:> > * MovableType movabletype.com (Perl+MySQL or BerkeleyDB or PostgreSQL; costs money to use) > There''s a free, albeit limited, version. It''s fine for most bloggers. > I use it currently because it was easy to set up. > > -- > Phillip Hutchings > sitharus.com > sitharus-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org / sitharus-QrR4M9swfipWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org > _______________________________________________ > Rails mailing list > Rails-1W37MKcQCpIf0INCOvqR/iCwEArCW2h5@public.gmane.org > lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails >
To anyone who''s interested, I found a nice alternative to blogger.com, myblogsite.com. It supports nested categories, unlimited image uploads and some other cool features. I think I like it better than Blogger, but I think you''re forced to use the *.myblogsite.com domain name. On that note, I''ve just installed Wordpress and I''m begining to play with it. Not sure how I feel about the pure php code mixed in with the html, but whatever, I just wanna blog. Looks good so far. And I finally realized why so many people have that Kubrik, blue template on their blogs.. its the default that comes with wp! hah. Gotta change that right away =] thnks again for your comments. On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 19:07:28 -0700, David Clements <digidigo-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:> Why not hit Doug Fales ( goud.net ) up for the source of his > blog. It uses rails. There was an article about this on > linuxjournal.com/article/8217 today. > > Dave > > > On Fri, 1 Apr 2005 13:45:49 +1200, Phillip Hutchings <sitharus-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote: > > > * MovableType movabletype.com (Perl+MySQL or BerkeleyDB or PostgreSQL; costs money to use) > > There''s a free, albeit limited, version. It''s fine for most bloggers. > > I use it currently because it was easy to set up. > > > > -- > > Phillip Hutchings > > sitharus.com > > sitharus-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org / sitharus-QrR4M9swfipWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org > > _______________________________________________ > > Rails mailing list > > Rails-1W37MKcQCpIf0INCOvqR/iCwEArCW2h5@public.gmane.org > > lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails > > > _______________________________________________ > Rails mailing list > Rails-1W37MKcQCpIf0INCOvqR/iCwEArCW2h5@public.gmane.org > lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails >-- - Ramin
* Ramin <i8ramin-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> [2005-03-31 20:34:02 -0500]:> What would everyone recommend? I don''t want anything TOO complicated > (like blogcms). The nice ones I''ve seen are Bblog, Serendipity and > Nucleus CMS. >I would recommend drupal, personally. For a place to host, checkout personalsites.org. They have great rates; good service. I''m about to email them about allowing RoR. -- Luke | PGP: 0xFBE7D8AF goseigen-Wuw85uim5zDR7s880joybQ@public.gmane.org | 2A44 9EB2 F541 C1F2 D969 56E3 8617 5B7F FBE7 D8AF
I can''t believe no one plugged TextDrive yet?!?! textdrive.com/specs Ruby, Python, PHP, Perl, Apache 2, (lighttpd soon - you can install it yourself), Subversion repositories, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, Berkley DB, ssh shell access by request (SFTP standard and tunneling as well even without a full shell account) ◦ Textpattern ◦ Wordpress ◦ Instiki (with proxying to port 80) ◦ Ruby on Rails ◦ Basecamp uploads ◦ Drupal ◦ Blogger (via SFTP upload) ◦ Trac ◦ Smarty ◦ Movable Type And Much Much More! Wonderful Pricing too!
Um, call me kooky but why not consider one of the rails blogs? What with this being a rails list and all... There''s Tentacle sarahwedde.org/tentacle which powers onebefore.org and a few other homebrew ones floating around (like the one David mentioned) that you might be able to get the source to. But even if you cant find one you like it''s not as if you can''t hack one together in a few hours with Rails. Blogs are simple beasts. -Kate (masukomi-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org)
I would consider a Rails one, but I can''t run Ruby on my hosting service (1and1). If I ever get a different hosting service (like TextDrive), then i''ll def. consider a rails one. On Mar 31, 2005 11:37 PM, kate rhodes <masukomi-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:> Um, call me kooky but why not consider one of the rails blogs? What > with this being a rails list and all... > > There''s Tentacle > sarahwedde.org/tentacle > which powers onebefore.org > > and a few other homebrew ones floating around (like the one David > mentioned) that you might be able to get the source to. But even if > you cant find one you like it''s not as if you can''t hack one together > in a few hours with Rails. Blogs are simple beasts. > > -Kate > (masukomi-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org) > _______________________________________________ > Rails mailing list > Rails-1W37MKcQCpIf0INCOvqR/iCwEArCW2h5@public.gmane.org > lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails >-- - Ramin
On Mar 31, 2005 6:34 PM, Ramin <i8ramin-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:> What would everyone recommend?Why not write your own in rails? (this is a rails list after all). For a basic blog, you wouldn''t need much beyond the scaffolding (assuming you know your way around rails, you''d spend more time designing the look of the site than actually doing anything with rails, which would be about 10 minutes of work tops -- decide on a db schema, generate the scaffold then plugin the login generator and you''re finished). This way you get a blog with exactly the features you need and nothing you don''t. ;) -- Urban Artography artography.ath.cx