Blogging software

[Foosinho]

I know some of you fellas blog. I've been thinking about firing one up for myself. I've got my own server (ie, I'm root), and would prefer to install the software locally. Not to concerned about what language it's in, but PHP hooked to MySQL would be awfully handly, since I've got both tools already installed and running on my system.

Anybody have any suggestions? EasyMoblog (http://www.easymoblog.org/) looks promising. Preferably I'd like something that wouldn't be too difficult to "skin" to look like the rest of my site (http://www.guilfoos.com/) (the partial redesign of which went live today - much content still being converted).

[-cman-]

You might want to check out this: http://www.hitormiss.org/projects/blogger_xml/ which allows PHP XML managmenet of blogger.com's free blogs.

If you want to run your own, look at this OS project: http://www.bblog.com/about.php

I've used neither. I've been toying with starting a blog but have not yet done so because of a) time, b) lack of anything to say.

[Foosinho]

I've used neither. I've been toying with starting a blog but have not yet done so because of a) time, b) lack of anything to say.

I don't know if I have anything to say either. Maybe if I find the right tool (ie, it's easy to do) I'll find myself getting in the habit.

Thanks for the links. I'll check 'em out.

[Dante]

Check out my blog in my sig. If you like the format, which is easily customizable, there's a link to the software that I use. It's called MovableType.

[-cman-]

Check out my blog in my sig. If you like the format, which is easily customizable, there's a link to the software that I use. It's called MovableType.

THAT's the one I was trying to think of this morning. Moveable Type is pretty popular as I recall, scales reasonably well too.

[microbrew]

I was looking for open source blogging software several months ago, and Movable Type definately seemed like one of the top choices out there. I also took a long look at bloxsom (http://www.blosxom.com). I also ran across http://www.opensourceblog.com/. Eventually, I just didn't want do admin the thing, so I joined www.livejournal.com

If you really want to go all out, you can try http://scoop.kuro5hin.org/ or http://www.slashcode.com/

[Foosinho]

Yeah, I had considered going to a full CMS like SlashCode or PHPWebsite. In the end, I decided that those systems were too complex for my wife to manage, too processor heavy for my server (an old, weak-ass PC), and generally overkill for my site.

I see that blogger.com will FTP your blogs on to your server, and you can use templates. Hrm. Maybe that's the way to go.

[microbrew]

I see that blogger.com will FTP your blogs on to your server, and you can use templates. Hrm. Maybe that's the way to go.

If ease of use and convience is important, going for a blogging service might be it. Then you can use client software, browser toolbars, browser extentions, etc. The trick then becomes getting that info into your server.

Since I already have my own homepage, I embedded LiveJournal into my webpage (see http://www.livejournal.com/developer/embedding.bml), though you have to pay for a subscription for the non-HTML frame methods.

[microbrew]

I found this blog software: http://wordpress.org/. Caption: "Code is poetry. Valid XHTML and CSS."

[Foosinho]

I found this blog software: http://wordpress.org/. Caption: "Code is poetry. Valid XHTML and CSS."
Tommy likey.

[skipshady]

I was looking for open source blogging software several months ago, and Movable Type definately seemed like one of the top choices out there. I also took a long look at bloxsom (http://www.blosxom.com). I also ran across http://www.opensourceblog.com/. Eventually, I just didn't want do admin the thing, so I joined www.livejournal.comI went through the same thing - I looked at all the options and decided I'd rather let someone else do the dirty work, so I chose blogger.com and here's what I have so far: spinachdip.blogspot.com

It has its limitations, but the design is very customizable if you know your HTML and CSS, and I plan on making more modifications to it as I go along. It doesn't have trackback. BlogThis! is great for impromptu posting (you click on a link and an editor window pops up), but it's not a WYSIWYG editor and I wish it had an offline editor like livejournal. But for the most part, I like it.

I understand TypePad (http://www.typepad.com/) and text pattern (http://www.textpattern.com/) are pretty good.

[MikeLastort2]

I use Blogger.com. Their selection of templates is pretty large, and most of them use a pretty good layout.

Jan and I are going to try to blog while we're on vacation. We'll see how that works out.

[irishFS1921]

blogger is very easy for FTP it's what i use when i get around to it.

[Foosinho]

I ended up going with WordPress - easy to set up, especially because I already have PHP (and mod_php) and MySQL installed on my server. Nice feature set too. And it was super-easy to "embed" into my existing page layout and menu system. Best of all, it spits out valid XHTML! W00t!

[footballses]

http://wordpress.org/.

I use it. You might also check out

OpenSource CMS (http://www.opensourcecms.com/) -- and test drive the application first