Not that I want to dump my meaningless rants onto the whole world, of course. I have a role-playing group, and hauling my ass to do up pages in Dreamweaver and then uploading it, and making sure I get the links correct at the same time, is eating up big chunks of my time.
I am looking into using a blog to host my game group’s site. It must have the follow critera
Maintain a journal
Able to have ‘articles’ ie, fixed links to certain journals
It’s not really a blog program per se, but I recently switched my web site over to Drupal. 100% free open source, and if you know a little PHP programming you can tweak the bejeebers out of it. Ideally, you need a web host with Apache and MySQL, but those are pretty easy to find. It supports anonymous and registered users, so your RPG group can have accounts and do their stuff as well.
If you mean a blog-type affair, yeah. You can set up permissions so that only users with specific roles have blogs.
I couldn’t find a Drupal module to do that, so I wrote my own.
Admittedly, Drupal isn’t for everyone – if you want just plain blogging, it’s overkill. But if you want to do a bunch of other stuff, and have some blogging/forum features, it’s a good fit. Naturally, the better your coding/design expertise is, the more you can tweak it.
