Blogging through Dreamweaver

I am developing a dreamweaver site for a client that showcases student work at a University (similar to www.thelantern.com). Through this, I want to be able to add content quickly, similar to a blog. How can I work through a site like wordpress to add content to my dreamweaver site? I've looked some things up, but I don't understand it... something about downloading a PHP? I'm only a student so I'm not familiar with a lot of the coding language yet - please help!

WordPress is a fully dynamic (PHP & MySql driven) website framework that you install on your server. WP is used to build the site/blog, add/edit pages, etc... There are no real pages to edit. So Dreamweaver will be no help to you once your WP site is deployed on the server.
That said, there are other Content Management Systems you can use. The right one depends on
a) your coding skills,
b) the type of server you have,
c) the project requirements,
d) budget.
COMMERCIAL CMSs
Cushy CMS (watch the video to see how it works)
No PHP or databases required.
http://www.cushycms.com
Perch ($59 license per site)
PHP & MySql required
http://grabaperch.com/
Media Carbon (formerly called "Content Seed")
No databases required
Available in ASP or PHP "Seed" versions
http://mediacarbon.com/
WebAssist Power CMS (Extension for DW)
http://www.webassist.com/dreamweaver-extensions/powercms-builder/
Adobe Business Catalyst (subscription includes CMS & web hosting)
http://www.businesscatalyst.com/
OPEN SOURCE
Get Simple CMS -
PHP, no database required.
http://get-simple.info/
e107 CMS
PHP & MySql required
http://e107.org/
WordPress
PHP & MySql required
http://wordpress.org
Joomla!
PHP & MySql required
http://joomla.com
Drupal
PHP & MySql required
http://drupal.com
Concrete 5
PHP & MySql required
http://www.concrete5.org/
Nancy O.

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Blogging with Dreamweaver.

Okay. I see some people have asked this question before, but everyone who answers seems to give the least helpful answers I've ever seen in any situation in my entire life. So I'm going to be really specific about the question here and really, really hope for something other than redirecting to another site or the recommendation not to use adobe products.
I own Dreamweaver CS6. I have built a website. I would like one page of that website to have a blog.
Everything I read seems to say something about PHP. I don't know PHP. (I am capable of learning new things though, so if I have to I will... but I'd like to know more about the endgame before I put in even more time on this.) I also keep seeing a lot about using blog services such as Wordpress or Blogger.
I'm a newbie. I have built the website, and with the exception of the blog and comments section, it essentially works. But I have only uploaded it to a school site. I have not yet tried to uploading to the site that will ultimately have my domain name.
Perhaps this is a question that will be answered when I try to upload to different site, but - I'm not entirely sure why I couldn't simply update my site whenever I want to post a new blog. I mean - why can't I just open Dreamweaver, edit my blog page, and upload? Obviously, the comments section would still be an issue - but, in terms of just blogging, why wouldn't I just update my page every day? Is that a problem? Are there costs associated with that? What's the deal?
Okay - now assuming there's an answer to that, rather than direct me to another website, could someone explain just how putting a blog into Dreamweaver works? If I actually go through the process of installing even more stuff onto my little computer, from there is it what? A matter of cutting and pasting PHP code into the Dreamweaver site? Do I link them somehow? Is this something the server would have to take care of?
Honestly, I don't mind not having a comments section if that's the hard part. I mean, if uploading an edited page every day is viable, I could also just have people email comments and I could stick 'em in there exactly how I want, right? So seriously, I'd love to know why blogging seems so complicated. And once I know that, I'd like to know the simplest way to incorporate blogging into my site. -I don't want to be redirected to Wordpress - I don't find their information particularly enlightening. It's just more verbage along the lines of, "Download this and all your problems will be solved!" I'd rather know exactly what's going on before I do that.
Also, if your answer is to not use Dreamweaver - please don't reply. I mean, duh - we're on the adobe site, I have a question about an adobe product, obviously I already spent money on the darn thing - please, if you're kind enough to reply, please also be kind enough to keep that in mind.
Thanks!
M

To create a basic blog you'll need to write your blog pages in something like PHP. I prefer php. To see what you are doing you'll need to install WAMP or MAMP (for mac). Search for those downloads and read up. It's easy to set up a local host to use in building your database.
You should first set up a basic log-in system so that you must log-in to post or log-in to write comments. There are lots of tutorials on how to do this. You just set up a mySql database and set up a users table. Give it the following columns. id, date, userName, password, access, and approval.
Dreamweaver CC and CS6 (and earlier versions) have tools to automatically set up log-in, restrict access and log-out pages. These are quite easy to setup and there are a bunch of tutorials on how to do this.
Now that you have your log-in system working locally you'll have to set up a database on your web server. Apache servers are easier than windows servers and they are the most common. Log-in to your DNS provider and set up a new database, use PHP my admin to move your users table from your system to your DNS provider.
Now it's time to set up a simple data entry form for creating posts. You'll need a table. Call it posts or something like that. Set up the following fields. id, date, userID, postData, and approval.
Use Dreamweaver tools to now setup a form to insert data into these fields. There's your data entry part.
Now set up a record set that looks at the posts table and retrieves the date, userID, and postData and set up a repeating region on your page to echo the data, the user info and the post.
That's all there is to it. You can find tutorials on all of those steps and CS6 and earlier have wizards that will build all the forms for you. It's easy. I do it every day. It's much lighter weight than something like WordPress or the other CMS systems out there, but if you build it from scratch you'll need to add all the features you may want to add in the future by hand.

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Please try the following steps:-
Choose Site > Manage Sites.
Select your site and Click Edit.
Select the Servers category.
Select the server to modify and click the Pencil icon.
Change you password (set an incorrect password), then click Save.
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Click Administer Site in Contribute. It would show you an error message.
Now
Click on Select the Servers category.
Select the server to modify and click the Pencil icon.
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I'm having the same issue with no solution in sight. BC and Dreamweaver should be able to give some clear instruction on this!!

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I personally suggest the new Drobo FS. Since it has an iTunes server built in and you can use any size sata hard drive in it it is better and a NAS that has to use the same size drives.

Blogging in Dreamweaver

I am an artist and have created my website using iWeb and
hosted through MobileMe (formerly .mac).
Website: www.sfumato420.com
Within the site, I have created, via iWeb, multiple blogs,
each representing one of my paintings.
I wish to transition over to Dreamweaver, but I am having
difficulty trying to figure out how to incorporate the blogs as I
have done with iWeb.
I was wondering if anyone could give me any advice on how to
begin such a daunting task.
I have heard within the forum that WordPress was the best way
to go, however, a question I have is:
"do I create the blog in WordPress, then import it or embed
it into my Dreamweaver project?"
I have heard of ThemeDreamer, however, I am looking for an
alternative that I do not have to pay for in the beginning in case
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To create a basic blog you'll need to write your blog pages in something like PHP. I prefer php. To see what you are doing you'll need to install WAMP or MAMP (for mac). Search for those downloads and read up. It's easy to set up a local host to use in building your database.
You should first set up a basic log-in system so that you must log-in to post or log-in to write comments. There are lots of tutorials on how to do this. You just set up a mySql database and set up a users table. Give it the following columns. id, date, userName, password, access, and approval.
Dreamweaver CC and CS6 (and earlier versions) have tools to automatically set up log-in, restrict access and log-out pages. These are quite easy to setup and there are a bunch of tutorials on how to do this.
Now that you have your log-in system working locally you'll have to set up a database on your web server. Apache servers are easier than windows servers and they are the most common. Log-in to your DNS provider and set up a new database, use PHP my admin to move your users table from your system to your DNS provider.
Now it's time to set up a simple data entry form for creating posts. You'll need a table. Call it posts or something like that. Set up the following fields. id, date, userID, postData, and approval.
Use Dreamweaver tools to now setup a form to insert data into these fields. There's your data entry part.
Now set up a record set that looks at the posts table and retrieves the date, userID, and postData and set up a repeating region on your page to echo the data, the user info and the post.
That's all there is to it. You can find tutorials on all of those steps and CS6 and earlier have wizards that will build all the forms for you. It's easy. I do it every day. It's much lighter weight than something like WordPress or the other CMS systems out there, but if you build it from scratch you'll need to add all the features you may want to add in the future by hand.

Editing magento blog in dreamweaver

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I would like to create a blog for www.minhoticaonline.com.br and was wondering if anyone managed to use dreamweaver to edit/tweak the blog of a magento shop?
tks

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Try to find is there any problem with blogs ??? Subscriber that by another emali like gmail , rediff etc.... if u receive mail thn its cleared that yahoo has a problm .... and if u dont get mail thn its bloge problem !!!!!

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That would be possible only if your webhosting service provides FTP capabilities.
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Hi,
Could you please confirm the version of Dreamweaver that you are using, like is it CS6 or CS5.5? Also are you getting ay error? If yes, please let us know the error code or message. Make sure you check the following article as well, which might be helpful
http://helpx.adobe.com/dreamweaver/using/dreamweaver-business-catalyst.html
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Blog and dreamweaver

I've got another question, sorry about that.
I would like to add a blog to my website. I've used wordpress
in the past and it worked well, but I never quite managed to use my
site design as a theme for wordpress. Are there any blogs that
allow you using your dreamweaver template directly?
Or would something like this
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/php_blog1.html
be the better way to go about it?

> I would like to add a blog to my website. I've used
wordpress in the past
> and
> it worked well, but I never quite managed to use my site
design as a theme
> for
> wordpress. Are there any blogs that allow you using your
dreamweaver
> template
> directly?
> Or would something like this
>
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/php_blog1.html
be the
> better
> way to go about it?
Well I'm sure the adobe article will work but you can also
customize WP,
it takes understanding the various elements. Perhaps you
could even use
a WP theme (many are free) that closely resembles your site
layout and
then make the changes from there. I've also successfully
worked with
http://www.daydreaminc.com/demoblog/
which is written in CF.

Designing a blog with dreamweaver

Hi,
I was wondering the difficulty level of designing a blog for my website in dreamweaver. What pointers are there for me to do this? Thank you in advance!

Right, I understand I can edit the CSS of a theme. I wanted to use the one I created in dreamweaver, I didn't know if I could incorporate this into my existing WP theme. If I wanted to ignore WP for a second and just link my dreamweaver blog template to my site, is this a normal thing to do? I'm not sure if I'm missing more aspects of creating a blog page. I have no PHP or mysql experience, its just CSS and HTML coding.
I'm really not sure I understand what you are asking here. If you have created a layout template in DW, you can certainly spawn a "blog" child page from it. But that child page will not function as a 'blog' until you add oodles of other server scripting. That's why it's much easier to use Wordpress for your blog functionality, and select a theme which can be adapted (using CSS and PHP) to look like the rest of your site. Alternatively, you can use a simple theme, use CSS to hide EVERYTHING except the content, and pull the theme's home page up into an IFRAME on your blog page.

Opening a web page created through Dreamweaver

Is there any way I can open in iWeb and then save a web page I created using another application; in this case, Dreamweaver? Or would I have to duplicate that page in iWeb from the ground up?

Unfortunately it has been answered. I was hoping I'd be able to easily shift over to iWeb from the much more complex Dreamweaver. But thanks for the answer.
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With all the folks using mobile devices on the web now, the web trend has shifted significantly from heavy use of graphics to the power of CSS3 rgba, linear-gradients, border-radius, box- / text-shadows, transitions, and SVG graphics.
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http://www.colorzilla.com/gradient-editor/
The upshot to all this is faster page loads with less bandwidth. Of course, you must build to your target audience. If that includes older, inferior browsers like IE8, then images might be a better choice for you.
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