blog within a blog?
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my blog is: http://rajencreation.wordpress.com
I am currently using the Tarski theme.
What I’m trying to accomplish is the look/feel of the “Daily Chuck” tab on the site http://www.dooce.com for my “RaJen Reviews” tab on my own blog.
I looked around other WP themes and found that Monotone would be a decent workaround in aesthetics, since, afterall, I am wanting to emphasize the photograph. Is that possible? Would I need to set up an additional wordpress blog/site?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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You might want to read this blog post, http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2009/03/29/remarks-on-monotone/ , as Monotone is VERY limited.
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The site you referenced is built on Drupal, which is not actually a blogging platform, but a full-fledged CMS (Content Management System) and it has a lot more out of the box capability built right into it that we have here at wordpress.COM.
You could do something sort of similar by creating a category called “RaJen Reviews” and then creating a tab on your top navigation that links to that category as described in this blog post: http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2009/03/26/page-tabs-as-external-links/ . Then when someone clicks on that tab, they would get a list of the posts assigned to just that category. The drawback is that those posts in “RaJen Reviews” would also show up on your blog main page since it displays ALL posts. There is no way to exclude posts from a certain category from showing on the main blog page as there is with Drupal or other full-fledged CMS.
Sorry, but that is about as close as I can get you to what you want.
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since I don’t know much of anything about CMSs or working within them, do you know how I’d go about finding someone who could create this for me? Would I be looking for a Programmer? or a Web Designer? And can the average layman/amateur/doing-this-for-fun’r person have something like this done at a reasonable price?
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CMS’s like Drupal and Joomla are not blogging platforms out of the box, so it requires work to make them one (as well as the installation of a number of extensions/plugins. I’ve been working with Joomla for a while now and from my perspective, they require a pretty high level of geek to set up, configure and maintain. The self-hosted version of wordpress is “do it in your sleep” simple by comparison.
Just posting an article is complex with CMS’s since you have to set a bunch of parameters so that the CMS will know where the article is supposed to appear, and how it will appear.
What is reasonable as far as price depends on what you consider reasonable. I’ve seen prices of $50 for a simple install it and you do all your own setup, customization and configuration, to as much at $7500 for a full blown site with a public area, a members only area and ecommerce.
The installation, set up and such is only the beginning though. With full CMS’s, upgrades to the CMS software can be quite complex and require a pretty high level of geek and understanding.
And remember that you have to have a domain name and have to have a web host before anything else, and that can have an average monthly cost anywhere from $7 to $50 per month depending on your bandwidth and storage requirements.
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had it to over again, i would have studied geek in school. instead of poking fun. on account of the day job in finance, i am only a low level geek. boo.
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Then the short answer is, no, you can’t do this. You can fake it roughly using Monotone on a blog dedicated to those posts, that’s all.
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