Comments on: So, Why Blogs? http://www.novelr.com/2007/01/27/so-why-blogs Hacking Publishing Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:58:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Eli James http://www.novelr.com/2007/01/27/so-why-blogs/comment-page-1#comment-1917 Eli James Thu, 07 Feb 2008 03:39:37 +0000 http://www.novelr.com/?p=3#comment-1917 I would recommend it to almost anyone, really. It would make far more sense to use a blogging platform rather than a website, primarily because of the ease of which articles can be written and aggregated. And blogs definitely beat full blown CMSes, especially for writing. I would recommend it to almost anyone, really. It would make far more sense to use a blogging platform rather than a website, primarily because of the ease of which articles can be written and aggregated.

And blogs definitely beat full blown CMSes, especially for writing.

]]> By: CrazyDreamer http://www.novelr.com/2007/01/27/so-why-blogs/comment-page-1#comment-1907 CrazyDreamer Wed, 06 Feb 2008 19:51:39 +0000 http://www.novelr.com/?p=3#comment-1907 I'm with A.E. in that I don't expect anyone else to trawl back this far, but hey, we're both here. . . . I do note that a lot of these points are basically for people who aren't interested in web design. For example, I'm in the midst of redesigning my website, and I'm certainly going to be putting in an RSS feed that is compiled via XSLT from the XML data files (which are easily updated) at the same time as the HTML visitor version is; I don't need blog software to do it for me. Even on my one WordPress-powered site I've spent many hours tweaking and customizing the template and CSS because I know how to and I wasn't 100% satisfied with any of the dozens of skins available to me. Of course, most people aren't me--I'm the type who would export his story to LaTeX if he knew how--but it's good to specify who your audience is when you're recommending one thing over another. I’m with A.E. in that I don’t expect anyone else to trawl back this far, but hey, we’re both here. . . .

I do note that a lot of these points are basically for people who aren’t interested in web design. For example, I’m in the midst of redesigning my website, and I’m certainly going to be putting in an RSS feed that is compiled via XSLT from the XML data files (which are easily updated) at the same time as the HTML visitor version is; I don’t need blog software to do it for me. Even on my one WordPress-powered site I’ve spent many hours tweaking and customizing the template and CSS because I know how to and I wasn’t 100% satisfied with any of the dozens of skins available to me.

Of course, most people aren’t me–I’m the type who would export his story to LaTeX if he knew how–but it’s good to specify who your audience is when you’re recommending one thing over another.

]]> By: Alexandra Erin http://www.novelr.com/2007/01/27/so-why-blogs/comment-page-1#comment-1455 Alexandra Erin Thu, 27 Dec 2007 22:47:44 +0000 http://www.novelr.com/?p=3#comment-1455 I don't know if anybody else is going to trawl this far back in the archive, but I'll add another big things blogs have going for them: people come to them already in the mindset that they're going to be reading words off a screen. You don't have to convince them to trip that all-important mental switch. I don’t know if anybody else is going to trawl this far back in the archive, but I’ll add another big things blogs have going for them: people come to them already in the mindset that they’re going to be reading words off a screen. You don’t have to convince them to trip that all-important mental switch.

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