Re: ASP design question

From: Aaron [SQL Server MVP] (ten.xoc_at_dnartreb.noraa)
Date: 03/23/05 

Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 17:50:25 -0500

Most of the work for the functionality is admin, IMHO.

The necessary things client-facing should be:

- view posts (maybe broken down by topic area / author)
- view archives
- post comments (anonymous or register/login)
- subscribe to RSS

I built one last week that had the above functions, and it took all of two
days. Yes, there is existing software out there, but I prefer to have
ownership and design choices on the schema. I also don't like the learning
curve of someone else's software, if I can avoid it, and the ability to move
my software to another web server with minimal impact (e.g. uninstall and
reinstall some blogger crap) was pretty important.

Optional features include things like allowing users to pick frilly CSS
things like color scheme or even overall template style.

For the admin side, authors need to:

- create / edit posts (and this should automatically update the RSS feed...
you can have the RSS feed be dynamic, but I prefer to rebuild the XML file
whenever a change is made... this is much less taxing on the server)
- remove comments (I know, censorship is bad, but if anonymous posts are
allowed, they could be callous, slanderous, etc. depends on the type of
blog and whom it represents, I suppose)
- view statistics 

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"Roland Hall" <nobody@nowhere> wrote in message
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