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bobbytheman
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March 11, 2010
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Question regarding building blogs

  • March 11, 2010
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I've downloaded an exstention to dreamwever call Theamdreamer, which suppositly allows your to design your own blog. The problem with it is you can't get any support when when trying to seek help.

My question is: Is there a way that I can learn to build my own blogs without having to go to wordpress or buying any software? If I study php will that teach me do create my own blogs. I want to be able to do this for my clients.

If theres anybody who knows about theamdreamer my problem is when I downloaded the php server for desktop the browser can't seem to reconize it.

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BenW7
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March 12, 2010

The easiest ways design-wise, would be to either make a "dynamic" website with recordsets, php, repeating regions and mysql or to use something like CushyCMS.

For the first option, you'll need to have a server set up. If you want to just set it up and test on your local computer (and you are using Windows), then I would suggest WAMP. Once you get a server set up, check out this video for how to set it up in Dreamweaver : http://tv.adobe.com/watch/taming-the-web-with-greg-rewis/adding-dynamic-content/

The second option is far easier to set up, but not quite as flexible. All you do with CushyCMS is set up an account, link it to your website (your site has to actually be online and be accessible with an FTP server for this to work), then asign the "cushycms" class to sections you want to edit. You then just use the CushyCMS site to edit (there is a tutorial video on the website). Here is the site - http://www.cushycms.com/

But, in the end, your best bet for a fully featured blog is probably just using something like WordPress or Joomla. While they will be harder to directly integrate into an existing website (especially Joomla, since it is almost impossible to edit pages in Dreamweaver), in the long run it will make the actual blog-writing process easier. But, as a developer, if this is just for your personal use you may not need all the extra bells and whistles that come with these systems.

EDIT : If you want to go the Wordpress route, check out this article : http://www.burnseo.com/blog/2009/10/integrate-wordpress-into-existing-website-tutorial/

EDIT AGAIN : Note, that if you go the first option I wrote above, you don't have to actually know PHP for basic functionality (Dreamweaver writes the PHP for you, as described in the video I linked to). Though, you should still learn PHP as it will greatly help you with troubleshooting in the future.

ALSO, another option would be Drupal - though I'm not very familiar with it.

Last EDIT, I promise (haha): Also, don't forget to refer to the Dreamweaver Online Help file : http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Dreamweaver/10.0_Using/WSc78c5058ca073340dcda9110b1f693f21-7a31.html

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