For many people, the idea of purchasing a web hosting account, registering a domain and then uploading some type of script like WordPress to handle the back end of things is a rather challenging task. Thank goodness there are still resources like pen.io that make it easy to publish just about anything you want to online.
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Quick Publishing with Pen.io
Turn Your Blog into a Book
Looking for an easy way to turn your WordPress powered blog into a book? Anthologize is a plugin for WordPress that will turn WordPress into a platform for publishing electronic text. Anthologize gives you all the tools you need to publish your work in a new and exciting way.
Share Simple Notes & Articles with Wrttn
Looking for a simple and shareable notepad on the Web?
Wrttn hopes to the the Web 2.0 service you have been looking for. It has to be the most straight forward online notepad I have seen, but still brings home several features that make it really useful.
Best of the Blogging Scripts
Over the past few weeks I have reviewed a ton of blogging script software selections. Some are good, some are just ok – and some, well I might not have a reason to use them, but you might.
- Dotclear – Great Blogging Alternative
- Easy Blog Publishing with Zomplog
- Eggblog, the Free PHP MySQL Blogging Script
- Beautiful Blogging with Textpattern
- Database-less Blogging with Flatpress
- A Wiki/Blog Hybrid in WikyBlog
- Habari = Next Generation Blogging Script?
- WordPress Sucks? Try Nucleus CMS
- Small, Yet Powerful Blogging with Pritlog
- Media Publishing Made Easier with Loudblog
- LifeType is Your Blogging Solution?
- Flexible Blogging/CMS with Serendipity
- The King of Kings is WordPress
Have any other blogging script suggestions you would like for me to check out?
WordPress
By far, if you want the most bang for your buck, WordPress is the hottest blogging script out there today. I have spent the past few weeks looking at a lot of WordPress alternatives, but when push comes to shove – thus far nobody does blogging scripts better than WordPress, in my humble opinion.
The install is simple, and famous for being able to be done in 5 minutes or less. As far as features go, you have link management, post categories, tags, auto-saving of posts, categories, and more. It would take me days to list them all.
Here is video of WordPress 2.7 doing what it does so well:
You have plugins and themes included too, which means you can customize and add features you might need, but the developers for got about. Here are a few more usual WordPress links that any WordPress fanatic should have handy:
I haven’t had much time yet to really play with an appreciate the newest version of WordPress yet, but from what I have seen thus far – WordPress 2.7 is a great improvement visually over the previous versions. You can pick up WordPress via WordPress.org.
A Wiki/Blog Hybrid in WikyBlog
Coming in today for review is WikyBlog. It is a groupware platforms that fuses together the collaborative editing features with a user friendly design. There are several features here to love. Here are a few that the developers list on the main page:
Designed for speed and ease of use, WikyBlog has a unique AJAX enhanced tabbed interface that enables users to view and edit multiple files within the same page. Custom templates, file attachments, a flexible user privilege system, and Google Maps number among its many features.
To check out more features WikyBlog provides, visit the features list. The install process does not look too complicated. From what I could find, you just need to upload, create your database, and configure. They do note you might need access to mod_rewrite and a .htaccess file too. That should not be to hard to get setup on today’s usual shared hosting plan.
Want to give it a shot for yourself? Check out the live demo on OpenSourceCMS.com.
All in all, WikyBlog looks nice if you are looking for a change, however the navigation interface confused me some. Almost like they are trying to do too many cool navigational tweaks. However, I would still suggest giving it a shot if you need a new way to manage and collaborate on your own blog.. err.. wiki… umm… WikyBlog!
Create an eBook with Open Office
First off, thank you for the positive feedback on the latest eBook release of mine I told you about a few days ago. Always appreciate the feedback and thoughts on the project. One question I have gotten a lot thus far is, what did I use to create it? Well, as many of you know I pride myself on being a low budget guy… so why pay money when I can get this done for free? I created the entire eBook using Open Office and this video I found on YouTube for pointers.
Who says this Internet thing isn’t a great learning device? This made it easy to pick up pointers on how to link inside of the document, and then how to export to PDF and secure the document up some so that it could not be edited. I would suggest anybody bookmark this video and play it again if you ever want to get into the basics of digital publishing yourself.
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