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Posted by AliceW on January 23, 2009, 8:01 am
I really need to re-do my web page but am trying to get away from FrontPage
if at all possible. I like the idea of a blog but want it hosted so I can
use my domain name. I know my hosting service provides Wordpress but they
only have a very plain theme. From the bowels of the WordPress user site, I
did determine that I can upload the theme of my choice to my hosting server.
Not a simple task to be sure so I am not certain I want to go this route.
But I have lots of quilt pictures that I want to publish.
So my choices are:
Stay with FrontPage, or
Upgrade to the replacement for FrontPage (Microsoft Expressions) since
FrontPage will no longer be supported, or
Move to a blog either with WordPress or Blogger, or
Use the WordPress theme from my hosting service and call it a day, or
Attempt to upload the theme I prefer to my hosting service which enables me
to use my domain name with a blog.
I know many of the group have blogs and many have web pages. What are your
thoughts about pros and cons of each?
--
Alice in NJ
"Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends
on us." Thomas L. Holdcroft
to reply, replace hyphen with a real hyphen
AVWhyphenNJ@comcast.net
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Posted by Jack Campin - bogus address on January 23, 2009, 8:22 am
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> I know many of the group have blogs and many have web pages.
> What are your thoughts about pros and cons of each?
You're in control of what goes on a web page, so you can make
it simple and fast. (Unless you use FrontPage, in which case
it'll be an ugly half-working mess when you view it on anything
but Internet Explorer).
Blogs have to be slow and clunky. Wordpress is the quickest
I've seen, and the only one I'll generally bother looking at
unless I have a *very* good reason to put up with timewasting
nonsense before I see what I'm looking for - but a large page
in Wordpress is very slow too.
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==== j a c k at c a m p i n . m e . u k === <http://www.campin.me.uk> ====
Jack Campin, 11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland == mob 07800 739 557
CD-ROMs and free stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, and Mac logic fonts
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Posted by AliceW on January 23, 2009, 8:50 am
Thanks for your comments. I agree with you about FrontPage to a certain
extent but I have several clients that I have set up and managed webpages
for in Frontpage without any issues. That's actually my biggest concern
about moving from FrontPage. I also like using webpages over blogs even
though they may not be as "dynamic" as a blog. But I am having a difficult
time finding another web design software system (other than Dreamweaver)
that I like.
The hunt continues....l
--
Alice in NJ
"Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends
on us." Thomas L. Holdcroft
to reply, replace hyphen with a real hyphen
AVWhyphenNJ@comcast.net
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>> I know many of the group have blogs and many have web pages.
>> What are your thoughts about pros and cons of each?
> You're in control of what goes on a web page, so you can make
> it simple and fast. (Unless you use FrontPage, in which case
> it'll be an ugly half-working mess when you view it on anything
> but Internet Explorer).
> Blogs have to be slow and clunky. Wordpress is the quickest
> I've seen, and the only one I'll generally bother looking at
> unless I have a *very* good reason to put up with timewasting
> nonsense before I see what I'm looking for - but a large page
> in Wordpress is very slow too.
> ==== j a c k at c a m p i n . m e . u k === <http://www.campin.me.uk>
> ====
> Jack Campin, 11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland == mob 07800 739
> 557
> CD-ROMs and free stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, and Mac logic
> fonts
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Posted by Kate XXXXXX on January 23, 2009, 9:19 am
Jack Campin - bogus address wrote:
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>> I know many of the group have blogs and many have web pages.
>> What are your thoughts about pros and cons of each?
>
> You're in control of what goes on a web page, so you can make
> it simple and fast. (Unless you use FrontPage, in which case
> it'll be an ugly half-working mess when you view it on anything
> but Internet Explorer).
Mine works OK on Mozilla/Thunderbird, and I put the pages together using
Front Page as it's easy. It's a pain to publish the pages at times.
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> Blogs have to be slow and clunky. Wordpress is the quickest
> I've seen, and the only one I'll generally bother looking at
> unless I have a *very* good reason to put up with timewasting
> nonsense before I see what I'm looking for - but a large page
> in Wordpress is very slow too.
I use the communities on LJ for some special interest stuffas that's
quick and easy, and the discussions can be fun.
--
Kate XXXXXX R.C.T.Q Madame Chef des Trolls
Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons
http://www.katedicey.co.uk
Click on Kate's Pages and explore!
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Posted by Sandy on January 23, 2009, 10:41 am
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> I really need to re-do my web page but am trying to get away from FrontPage
> if at all possible. I like the idea of a blog but want it hosted so I can
> use my domain name. I know my hosting service provides Wordpress but they
> only have a very plain theme. From the bowels of the WordPress user site, I
> did determine that I can upload the theme of my choice to my hosting server.
> Not a simple task to be sure so I am not certain I want to go this route.
> But I have lots of quilt pictures that I want to publish.
>
> So my choices are:
> Stay with FrontPage, or
> Upgrade to the replacement for FrontPage (Microsoft Expressions) since
> FrontPage will no longer be supported, or
> Move to a blog either with WordPress or Blogger, or
> Use the WordPress theme from my hosting service and call it a day, or
> Attempt to upload the theme I prefer to my hosting service which enables me
> to use my domain name with a blog.
>
> I know many of the group have blogs and many have web pages. What are your
> thoughts about pros and cons of each?
I'm not a blogger, though there are a few blogs I try to read
semi-regularly. I do my web site with a free app called Kompozer
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(available for both Mac and Win at <http://kompozer.net/>), which makes
page set up and editing very easy. Of course, my site is quite simple; I
don't have scrolling text or animated gifs or anything more complicated
than text and photos. However, I think Kompozer will handle much of the
more complicated stuff, too. HTH.
--
Sandy in Henderson, near Las Vegas
sw.foster1 (at) gmail (dot) com (remove/change the obvious)
http://www.sandymike.net
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