# Recommend me a blog...

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-a-blog/317774>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 19, 2005, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-a-blog/317774 "2005-08-19T18:11:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f08c70/32.png) [@Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crowbar_of_Irony_3)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-a-blog/317774/1 "2005-08-19T18:11:43Z")

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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
- Upload files (not just photos)
- Store links to interesting webpages
- Free

Is there such a deal?

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**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-a-blog/317774/2 "2005-08-19T20:41:15Z")

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It’s not really a blog program per se, but I recently switched [my web site](http://www.electric-escape.net/) over to [Drupal.](http://www.drupal.org) 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.

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> - Maintain a journal

If you mean a blog-type affair, yeah. You can set up permissions so that only users with specific roles have blogs.

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> - Able to have ‘articles’ ie, fixed links to certain journals

Easily. You can even specify your own URL for pages/stories, so you can use “[http://www.mysite.org/our-great-adventure](http://www.mysite.org/our-great-adventure)” instead of “[http://www.mysite.org/node/3498](http://www.mysite.org/node/3498)”

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> - Upload files (not just photos)

A-yup. Just turn on the “attachments” module.

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> - Store links to interesting webpages

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.

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**Author:** ![Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f08c70/32.png) [@Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crowbar_of_Irony_3)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2005, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-a-blog/317774/3 "2005-08-20T03:43:46Z")

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> [@rjung](#):
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> It’s not really a blog program per se, but I recently switched [my web site](http://www.electric-escape.net/) over to [Drupal.](http://www.drupal.org) 100% free open source, and if you know a little PHP programming you can tweak the bejeebers out of it.

Thanks for the head-up, I take a look at Durpal. Got my own webspace and a year of PHP under my belt, so it shalln’t be a problem!