Add news blog to existing web site

[Xponential]

I don't know if what I'm trying to add would be considered a blog. Anyway, I'm trying to add a news reel to the middle of my page so I can post news updates every now and then. My GoDaddy hosting account came with these blog applications: Nucleus, pLog & Serendipity.

Would one of those work for what I'm trying to do or should I use something else??

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

 

[Xponential]

Anyone at all??

 

[imported_DarkPenguin]

I think we need more detail.

I've used none of the applications listed.

 

[Xponential]

All I'm trying to do is add an area in the middle of the home page on my site that I can add news to. Kind of like a little news feed I guess.

I don't know what kind of program I need to do this with, or if one of those that I listed in my first post would work.

 

[Davegod]

are you looking for something like dragonfly, cgp-nuke or?

 

[imported_DarkPenguin]

I think you need to go find the pages for the blogs listed and see how you can integrate them into your existing page. Find some example pages. If you want to try a full CMS, Joomla is pretty nice and easy.

 

[spyderex]

Serendipity should be able to do the job. i should be custumizable enought in order for oyu to remove the default side items and maybe allow you to add your own.

 

[Xponential]

That's just it. I don't need a full CMS. I already have my site built. I just need to add a window on the front page right smack in the middle where I can post news updates.

 

[Hersh]

If this is going to be a small little box with news/text, why don't you just do it in simple HTML? You don't need a script to do everything.

Hosts are going to offer automated installations of relatively large scripts like full blown CMS applications. Before scripts like Wordpress and MT were available, I used to use simple news scripts on my site:

http://www.elektrik-sheep.com/newspro/
http://newsphp.sourceforge.net/
http://cutephp.com/

 

[Xponential]

If this is going to be a small little box with news/text, why don't you just do it in simple HTML? You don't need a script to do everything.

Because I don't know how to set it up so it saves in a mysql database like a script would.

Anyway, PHPnews looks like it might work. I'll give it a shot.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

It shouldn't take long to learn basic mysql commands and it shouldn't take much longer to learn the basic concepts behind php to be able to write one yourself. I took one VB class like five years ago and what little I remember from it made learning php last year remarkably easy.

 

[neit]

If you want to make the work load light, look up SSI, server side includes. what you can do is basically tell the main file to read the content of another file and put it in before it is served. this is a lighter hit that mysql and i think php (I haven't bothered looking up benchmarks, but i think php/mysql is a bit overkill for the needs). if you are going to be updating many times per day, a full blown blog might be needed, otherwise mess with SSI and you can probably setup multiple ways to update the news file.