Wednesday, 10 June 2009

Using blog as a messageboard - on journalism sub-domain

I have discussed that you can strip down a Google 'blogger' blog using its simple dashboard menu commands so that you can use it as a messageboard. All you do is embed the blogger URL on any HTML page - and there you have a fully functioning content management system without having to set up a database or do any of the that server-side stuff.

Here's the HTML code.





So if you ever get access to the www.winchester.ac.uk server (maybe just to update course details) then you can embed a message board with all your own protocols and user policies. Of course you and the university have full liability for anything said. But this is a very quick and easy way to rig up a CMS, certainly.

Obviously the window containing the messageboard would be a lot wider when you use a university website template. It is plenty wide enough.

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