I’ve manually run a blog for the past couple of years, but decided it was about time to setup a more automated approach. WordPress, is a popular webblog tool using PHP. It was very straightforward to install WordPress 2.2.1 on a server with a MySQL DB. After playing around with a few options it was not difficult to start importing items from my existing site: http://www.cadmaps.com/gisblog.htm
I managed to edit the html from the old site and even found a work around for embedded YouTube videos without too much effort. So far I’ve found WordPress easy to use, but I have yet to work on customizing the styling.
The recommended w.bloggar tool is actually a better interface for editing and adding content. For example, I found that modifying the YouTube embed code to use <div> in place of <p> did not work in the WordPress editor, but worked fine from a w.bloggar publish.
Overall the WordPress experience has been pleasant. In the past I’d attempted to use a Java weblog tool , Roller Weblog , without much success. I now see that Roller has been released from Apache incubation and I will need to check out the 3.1 version. There doesn’t seem to be much advantage to java over PHP in my current configuration. WordPress is a tool to get the job done. I have not yet thought of any real use for customized map interfaces in a weblog that can’t be accomplished with a straightforward embed. If I want to work with a 3D connected graph sometime using WPF to show article relationships in a 3 axis spatial model, I might need to work with a weblog tool that is .net 3.0 friendly.
Now I just need to readup on WordPress and see about some customization of styling.
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