Blog without WP - image resizer

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Myler

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Apr 25, 2009
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Question, bros. Two of them actually.

1. Where should I look for some instructions on making a blog without WP. I'm making a simple simple site for myself, and I really don't want to go thru customizing themes etc. I just don't need it. So I want to know how do I make a regular html page into searchable blog with categories etc. Simple blog.

2. My page is 1000 px wide. Images I have on flickr are 1500 or more. Is there a way to link the pics straight from the flickr or anywhere to my page and have them resized to 1000 without artifacts and pixel mess, is it possible to make it as good as regular photoshop resize?

THanks! :D
 


1) You need more than html skills to do this (the searchable part at least). You'll need a background in some sort of web programming language. It's actually incredibly counter productive. Learn some PHP and stick with Wordpress.

2) You can set an images width in the img tag. Example:
Code: 
<img src="image.jpg" width="200" height="150">

Or you could set it via CSS style.
 
That's depressing...but let me ask this - why all those HTML templates that go for 15 bucks on TF all have "blog" sections in them?

It's a standard procedure to convert those themes to WP?

I foiund some Jekyll platform but the fact I don't actually know what to do with it renders it useless for me...


Im thinkin should I go rogue and make a html site...but then updating links in the footer for instance will be a little nightmare

Fuck.
 
Not sure I understand your approach. You want a static html site, but with dynamic capabilities like search, auto-generated category pages, etc? It might help if you could explain why you want the site to be static. Is it for some perceived SEO benefit, or performance needs, or?

I suppose you could consider a wordpress plugin that creates a static html clone of your site. Google for "WP Static HTML Output".
 
Misunderstanding :D I dont want a static site, I just wanted a blog-site but not built on wordpress...I've made the entire HTML site now and I was wondering how can I make it connected and dynamic without converting to Wordpress, alternatives to Wordpress...
 
Oh, a list of CMS's (content management systems)?

hxxp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_content_management_systems
 
what is my choice, if i dont want to go wordpress route, and i dont know shit bout drupal

whats the runner up in popularity - quality, for some small, text and some images type of blog.
 
WordPress 3.4.2 just came out. It's free. You can get a whole bunch of free themes out of wordpress.org.

There are also thousands of plug-ins (free and some cost money). The TF and evato sites are but a small representation of themes that are out there.

When you import images to a WordPress Post or Page, you have the option to "Scale" the image size to something closer to your page size.

The other thing is you can look at theme designs that are more dynamic and will work with mobile devices and paginate well.

WordPress is not rocket science. I've rolled out well over 400 of them in the past 18 months for my company and for select clients. If you need help just give me a holler and I can get you going in a couple of hours (or less).

IMHO, relative to Joomla (both 1.x and 2.x), Drupal, XOOPS and DotNet Nuke, WP is easier to deploy, more extensible, and there are far more free and for-fee stuff for it.
 
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