My new blog, my first post
Well, I have started a blog, not because I feel I have a burning desire to say something - or even anything. Rather, I was looking for a simple blogging script that I could add to an existing website, for a client. I could have added a WordPress blog to the site, as I have done for other clients, but it did seem like a sledgehammer to crack a walnut.
So I looked around and found a few possibilities. I wanted the blog to look like part of the website and not like an add-on, and preferred to use flat files rather than databases if at all possible. As I looked at the scripts I had found none seemed to have everything I wanted; they were either not customisable, or not sufficiently so, or were missing something.
As I thought about it, I realised that I could probably write a script myself. I already had many of the components from admin scripts I had written for other sites. So, last Saturday, a dreary wet, windy and rainy day, I set to, to make a start. A couple of hours later and I had the basic display posts page and scripts to create, edit and delete posts.
A further couple of hours on Sunday and I pretty much had a working system, so much so that I decided to give it a test-drive here.
Even if I find nothing else to say, I will write more about the script in a future post or two.
Posted on 04-03-2018 at 14:21