Blog in Dreamweaver

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I am creating a site using Dreamweaver. Everything page looks how I want it to look, and performs how I want it to perform except my news.html page. Im going to use 'news.html' for blogging purposes to draw more attention to this site.

I am comfortable using coding language such as html, css, and some java. I have no experience in coding PHP sites (which from research, it will need to be done in PHP). Before I decided to post in the form I did some research on how this could be done. I have found some forms talked about using WordPress as the blog page. But I feel as though I wouldn't be taken serious if I used WordPress.. Instead I'd like to build it from scratch and make it a learning process to gain knowledge as I go.. So I came across a blog from David Powers.

Long story short, I followed his instructions (this blog is pretty outdated by the way) and got stuck. I downloaded MAMP, followed the instructions to set the ports to default. But with my version of MAMP compared to his (at the time) are different. He didn't talk about the Nginx Port and what it should be on..

The blog that I am following his instructions is:

Setting up a PHP development environment for Dreamweaver | Adobe Developer Connection

I am stuck on step 5:

And this is the options on my MAMP:

If anyone could pitch me in there opinions on how they would do this site, I will take any feed back I can get. Like I said this is a learning process for me.

Thank you,

Kevin

osgood_ · Accepted Answer

Your port set up looks good to me.Have a go at setting up a blog yourself but if its your first outing with php then its going to be a huge learning curve. It depends how sophisticated you are wanting to get. If you are indending to allow readers of your blog to respond to your articles then it might be best to use an out-of-the-box solution. However if you just want to babble on then it's not that difficult to create a blog but I suspect you are wanting to engage with your readers somehow and get a response, in which case you need to consider how you are going to police your blog. You would need to assess any responses before they go live on your blog so you need to hold them for publishing consideration in a database table before checking and allowing them loose on the world.

Nancy OShea · Answer

Open a Blogger account. Once your blog is up and running you can pull the Blogger RSS Feed into your web site with PHP code. A much simpler & saner project than building a blog from scratch. I see no sense in reinventing the wheel if you don't need to. See link below for details.

Alt-Web Design & Publishing: Adding a Blogger RSS Feed to an HTML Page

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