I recently developed a website for my girlfriends salon and it has given me the web building bug!
I have always enjoyed fishing since being a child and have decided to try and catch specimins of every species this year posting my catches along the way.
I thought this would make for a great website but when I have sat down to start Ive run out of ideas. I havnt created a blog before so thought of this as a learning curve but then thought about creating a website to track my progress with a blog/forum attached. What do you think and do you have any ideas?
I recommend you check out wordpress.org. That’s the most popular blogging platform. It’s easy to install, and you can either design your own templates around it, use the default ones, or choose one of hundreds (maybe thousands) of themes that others have designed.
Once you are using a cms, it seems way better to me to have as much of the site as is feasible in the CMS. You could add just the cms stuff, but it seems far easier to me to have all the static pages in the CMS alongside the blog content.