Create Blog using Dreamweaver?

Get Started
1

Has anyone of you here considered creating a blog using Dreamweaver? I was just thinking if that could be possible.

2

Dreamweaver is just a code editor. A real blog is a content management system that involves a language like PHP for updating content dynamically etc. So yes, you can edit all of that code in Dw and upload it. Many people do. But what makes it a real blog is what is done by the PHP on the server once it’s uploaded.

You could of course imitate a blog with a static site and create all the pages, links etc. yourself, but it quickly becomes rather tedious.

3

Actually yes You can,

  1. Open up Dreamweaver and create a new page. You can start with a totally blank page or choose a template to start working with.

  2. Decide on the look you want for your blog. Most blogs are fairly simple and have a header, the main section where your articles will go and a side bar containing other information. You can change it however you want but you need to pick out a color or image for the background and create a header. You can create a header in a graphics program or just write in large font what you want your header to say. It might look nicer to put the header in a block by choosing Insert and then choose table. Make the table according to the size and shape you desire.

  3. Find a blog site that lets you post dynamically to your website. Dreamweaver has no natural commenting system so you will need to find a way to make a commenting system work for you. You can search for PHP programs that you can incorporate into your Dreamweaver code.

  4. Save and upload your page to your website. If you are blogging with no help from sites like blogger.com you will just to need to type your articles in the open space on the Web page and then save and upload changes. You will have to manually move older articles to the bottom of the page or to other pages when you no longer want them to show on the front page.

4

Yes, that’s what I meant by a ‘static’ site. Though, as you say, there are PHP plugins that allow users to submit comments that appear on the page automatically. Or you could just use a contact form through which people submit comments and then you manually paste them in to the page, but all of this will get very tedious, as I mentioned.

5

I have done it. Twice. But then again, I used DW as a text editor ( I dont even use the WYSWYG) to upload the core files. DW will not store data, or serve the files once the coding is done.

What you have to understand is you can code anything in DW ( or TextEdit for that matter) … but you will ALSO need a server with MAMP, XAMP, LAMP or what not , knowledge of PHP and MySQL.