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Wordpress
Can those of you with more geek points than me sanity check this for me?
I want to install Wordpress on http://www.wonderfuldreams.me.uk so I can keep a very public blog somewhere off LiveJournal (partly for reasons of fewer restrictions on what I can say, partly because I'm not using my site for much at the moment and I would like to do something useful with it, partly for the online presence of a very public blog that's identifiably mine).
The lovely people at BCN host wonderfuldreams for me. I have their standard hosting package.
If I've understood Wordpress's installation requirements all I need to do is pay BCN for database access and then follow the instructions. Am I missing something? Is the installation more complicated than those instuctions contemplate?
I am *not* at this stage interested in moving the hosting elsewhere. BCN are small and provide excellent customer service. That's worth much more to me than one-click installation or marginally cheaper hosting.
I am prepared to consider systems other than Wordpress, if anyone has suggestions of other suitable software to try.
Ideally I'd like to set up something that'd automatically post anything I post publicly to LiveJournal there as well. I'm not sure an RSS feed is quite what I'm looking for, as that is reliant (if I understand it properly) on the content on LiveJournal being available for the software to read it. I want something that'll take the content and turn it into an independent, properly formatted post over there, as well as posting it on LJ.
I want to install Wordpress on http://www.wonderfuldreams.me.uk so I can keep a very public blog somewhere off LiveJournal (partly for reasons of fewer restrictions on what I can say, partly because I'm not using my site for much at the moment and I would like to do something useful with it, partly for the online presence of a very public blog that's identifiably mine).
The lovely people at BCN host wonderfuldreams for me. I have their standard hosting package.
If I've understood Wordpress's installation requirements all I need to do is pay BCN for database access and then follow the instructions. Am I missing something? Is the installation more complicated than those instuctions contemplate?
I am *not* at this stage interested in moving the hosting elsewhere. BCN are small and provide excellent customer service. That's worth much more to me than one-click installation or marginally cheaper hosting.
I am prepared to consider systems other than Wordpress, if anyone has suggestions of other suitable software to try.
Ideally I'd like to set up something that'd automatically post anything I post publicly to LiveJournal there as well. I'm not sure an RSS feed is quite what I'm looking for, as that is reliant (if I understand it properly) on the content on LiveJournal being available for the software to read it. I want something that'll take the content and turn it into an independent, properly formatted post over there, as well as posting it on LJ.
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That said, it's written in PHP so if you are more used to ASP you could try the excellent (and also free and simple) Forest Blog (http://www.hostforest.co.uk/)...