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Blog Integration

I have two questions:

  • From personal experience, what is the best free blog engine to integrate into a blog on an already developed website?

  • Since many blogs use their own template tags, I wanted to know if there is an easier way to integrate a blog than learning those template tags? If there is no alternative way to do this, or even a workaround, is there a better way to get me started head first so that it can be done faster?

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If you're worried about templates and tags in terms of implementing your own website design in a blogging system, there are many tools out there that are suitable for that!

WordPress has a wealth of documentation on how to implement your theme, as well as split themes so you can get started quickly.

There are similar resources for MovableType , Drupal and TextPattern . Alternatively, if you are concerned about trying to implement this theme, you can pay for someone else to do it, and up to a deadline of your choice (assuming the html templates are ready).



In addition to this, if you don't mind the paid option, there are even more options available. These include:

These apps are great if you don't want to pollute your tags and just need to quickly tweak your blog / cms setup. I would recommend Perch via two others, solely for great support, and it is a downloadable (you accept), one-time, Paid app.

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I'm not sure what your objection is to Wordpress template tags, but in my experience Wordpress is extremely extensible if you have the knowledge and patience of PHP. It is well documented as well. I'm not trying to be a clever alek about this, but I think whatever you use is likely to be the same job to delve into and understand.



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Yes, there are other content management systems like Joomla or Drupal .

Wordpress uses themes to build their sites, which are basically a collection of CSS and PHP files. So yes, you just need to edit these files to match the style of your site.

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Other popular blogging platforms include hosted software such as Textpattern and Movable Type ; and non-hosted blogging platforms such as Blogger , TypePad, and Tumblr .

Most include support for "themes" or "templates" that you can modify or create from scratch to match the look and feel of your website. Here are some links to documentation on how to do this for Wordpress , Movable Type , Blogger , TypePad, and Tumblr .

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If it is an asp.net subsystem integration, I advise you to go with BlogEngine

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I think it depends on your need from my experience, if you just want to include in a blog cast and allow people to navigate to another section of your site, you can do it with any of them and RSS. A little programming or xsd style and you can include your homepage.

If you would like to have more controls or display the entire site, you can use frames (although I discourage it). With the last site I worked on, I went through the submission route and made sure I could host a Wordpress blog on the same hosting / domain. This way the home page is clean and shows more business (along with a large RSS feed). Then instead of submitting the usage to another domain like mysite.wordpress.com, I just redirected them to mysite.com/blog. All traffic remained on the same domain and I could control everything. Including theme and CSS.

I found that some of the free blogging platforms give the average person 90% of what they need, I just needed more control and hated having to send users to a different domain, seems cheap to me. Good luck.

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