I’m not sure if this is the right forum or not.
Anyway I have this prospective web design client that wants a joomla site built.
I was looking at the site they have now and they have links to blogs that they have setup on Google blogspot and I searched for help on this on the google site of course they don’t give out a phone # you can call. Thats why I am here.
I know the client is going to want the information thats in the archived blogs and current blogs from blogspot and I have know idea how to go about getting them, without opening each page and archived blog and copying and pasting the content.
They have archived blogs going back to April of 2005.
If any body has had experiences with something like this or can point me in the right direction.
look on the Joomla site to see if they have a feed fetching module. In WordPress, for example, I think it asked me if I had another blog and wanted to get those posts. Blogspot blogs have feeds which you can use
One more question The feed would only display the blog content / text and not the layout of the blog site. So it wouldn’t interfere with my Joomla template?
Thanks again I’ll check into it further.
I would suggest you to make your client understand that wordpress is more seo friendly joomla. It can passon more benefits to their project if they setup a blog on wordpress rather than using joomla.
I think wordpress is better for you. Because wordpress is easier and reliable than Joomla.
You can import the RSS or ATOM feeds from Blogger into Joomla pretty easily.
As the content will be XML, it should all fit fine within your Joomla site design.
I don’t use wordpress that much. Is it really good is it?
I believe that you need to hire designer for that kind of task there. I have seen a lot of people which will be able to redesign that for you.
Blogger or Word Press are better options for you I believe. Google tends to be oversaturated with a lot of users which isn’t ideal. I use Blogger and it installs quickly with Fantastico if you use the Linux/cPanel combination.
blogspot is the blog that is written in the blogger and the another thing that we use for the blogs is wordpress
Wordpress will give more possibilities to you
That’s correct, jbhoo. The feed import will grab the text only.