How can I set up a blog on my web site using FrontPage 2003?

[Guest]

I would like to create a blog on my web site. I use FronPage 2003 with
FrontPage extensions. Microsoft touts the ability to blog in FrontPage using
Sharepoint Services on an company intranet but does not mention anything
about how to do it on a hosted Internet web site. I ran a Google search but
found very little on the subject. Yet I found a large number of blogs
supposedly created by FrontPage authors. So what gives? How is it done? or
has Microsoft made this thing so proprietary that I can only use a Sharepoint
Server to create one? If my host does not use SharePint Services am I screwed
unless I use a third party blogger site? If so I am going to stop using
FrontPage. It's too restrictive and proprietary. Don't tell me it will be in
the next veriosn of FronPage and I will have to purchase the upgrade. I
refuse to shell out morey for overpriced software that doesn't interface well
with the rest of the world unless it's a Microsoft world.

 

[Rick Budde]

Use the Search button on this newsgroup for the
subject "blog". You may need to widen your search for a
longer period of time than the default.

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

If you want to do it with FP, you will need to be hosted on a Windows 2003 Server running SharePoint
Services, as is part of SharePoint, not FP, but accessible via FP, otherwise you need to locate a
3rd Party Application that is written in a scripting language supported by your web host.

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[clintonG]

It sucks for the time-being all right but you probably also know that
Dreamweaver does not support blogging any more than FrontPage 2003 unless
you build the blog application yourself and doing so in a manner that is
even near the equivalent to what services such as Blogger and Movable Type
offer is not easy I can assure you.

If you scrolled to the bottom of those "supposedly created by FrontPage
authors" websites you are likely to observe a 'made by' .Text button. That
application has been discontinued and is being rebranded by Telligent
Systems [1] as Community Server. You might want to keep an eye on that
solution as it is now in beta and is shaping up into an offering that
combines forums, blogs and photo galleries into a broader solution.

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[1] http://www.telligentsystems.com/

 

[Andrew Murray]

you can find a third-party script to host on your site itself (not using a
thirdparty-remote hosted script) which I assume your host will let you run on
their servers (depends on their regulations).