After trying many blog packages - a winner?
Sometimes rediculous amounts of time disappear into the “ether”. Our modern equivalent is the web. Like the ancient ether, you can’t see it, but you know it is there.
It started out as a simple idea. Blog. That should be simple enough.
WordPress was highly rated. I uploaded over a thousand files and was very excited. Then I managed to corrupt the install and my website. It was probably my fault, but overall WordPress was too much. And I really wanted static urls.
So next was Movable Type. After a few hours, I finally had to email my web host technicians. It turns out the Windows servers on my host site don’t offer Perl. I thought I had it, but did not. Movable type has static URLs, but I could not install it.
I tried to install DasBlog a couple of times and could not succeed.
An interesting contender was Coffee Cup Flash Bogger. I was not able to determine if it would to RSS or ATOM feeds. But Flash is highly compatible, and I give it high marks for originality. It might be a nice little package for an informal Blog.
The very first blogging I did was on Blogger, Googles blog site. Overall I like the software. It was easy to use. Howver, it is hosted by Google and I did not want to be at their whim long term. It would create html files and static links that would be compatible even with my FrontPage extensions that I use on WalkingRidge.com. It would not do categories though.
In the end, I was so impressed by how easily Nucleus installed, the nice size of the package. How fast it was and its overall features that I have set off, full steam ahead with Nucleus. Their plugin directory had some scripts for converting to static URLs and creating HTML files and sitemaps. So I think with my limited PHP skills it might be easier to adapt some scripts to create static pages than program my own blog software.
But, to fully make use of that, some naming convention for the URL besides a post number would be nice. So, after getting a Nucleus blog up and running, I’m back on WordPress. Nucleus did have some add-ins that might work. Might not. Since WordPress had alternate permalinks built in, the winner is……. WordPress. For now.
- the MuseTags: wordpress
