Home-brewed blog
Posted May 19, 2004 in Blogging.
As I indicated earlier, I am thinking about doing a complete re-write of my rather limited content management system. Actually, I think content management system is a rather grandiose title for what is essentially a few forms, some database insert pages, and a few pages that pull info out of the database. Anyway, I've decided to make a list of all the things I'd like to put in it, and then get some feedback from readers:
- Database should store:
- Entries
- Comments
- Categories
- Referral information
- Links (like dailies)
- Image paths for a photo gallery
- Blogroll
- Banned IPs and domains
- Better file structure
- Plenty of search options
- More intelligent commenting (allow HTML?)
- Everything in Unicode
- Sophisticated administration
- Better entry categorization (more than 1 category allowed)
- Auto blogroll update (how?)
- Auto ping (how?)
Have I missed anything?
Comments
URI's might be improved and I would never allow HTML; an XML based parser is much simpler.
Posted by Anne on May 19, 2004.
Good point on the URIs. As far as an XML-based parser is concerned, you must remember that I am not the genius you are LOL. I haven't a clue how to do any of that stuff yet, but I shall certainly investigate.
Incidentally, I am not a big fan of the title-in-the-URL technique. I don't know why, exactly. I just don't like it. I'd rather have an ID number. I'll probably have to do mod_rewrite stuff (like we discussed a few months ago).
Posted by Simon Jessey on May 19, 2004.
Here's a nice breakdown I came across somewhere:
http://mpt.phrasewise.com/2003/05/02#a507
Though a matter of taste, 'title in url' does help the user and with the search engines somewhat, though in can lead to looong url's. Definately re-write out the ?id=### bit. Though the bot's are getting better at following Get params, they don't like to see 'id' in the url much.
Posted by Mike P. on May 19, 2004.