what does it mean to have to blog manually vs using a blogging program on your own website?? like this site here...all the blog entries seem to be posted in an orderly manner and it seems like when you change your layout..all you have to do is change the colors and all of the "red rectangles" for each module and each date will change on its own. you dont have to do each one individually right?? like on xanga?? does anyone get what im saying? im sorry...

Yeah. I have my own blogging system on my website (available here). Basically, I just store all my entries in a database (an MS Access database, in my case). They're in a table that contains several columns: PostID (the primary key, or identifier for the post), EntryTitle, EntryDate, Post, ArchiveMonth, ArchiveYear, and CommentTotal. So basically, I write a script for the front page that pulls the top five records in the database (the newest records), order them by date, and then output them in a loop (which is a piece of code that keeps repeating until a certain event occurs, in my case, the end of my recordset). So basically, it uses a tiny 10-line piece of code to draw my webpage. Updating the style is easy because everything is identified by class, and then I use a CSS stylesheet to make global changes across the entire page.

ooooh i see!! thanks! lol.

oh wait..is that the real link? it's not working...

Oops, sorry, it should be:

http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/mdippery

try wordpress http://wordpress.org