[UPHPU] Best way to incorporate blog into web site

[Robert Merrill]

Forgive if I am not posting properly, as I am sending this from my mobile.

I also recommend Wordpress, especially if your site is already built
in php/mysql. How deeply you want to integrate is up to you, but an
easy way to go is to have the root of the wordpress app begin in
yourdomain.com/blog/ with a matching footer/header for the site.

Omniture's blogs are a great example of theme/design integration.
Remember that your users don't care if they are on "the blog" or not,
but I recommend you make sure the user-experience is consistent enough
that they're not lost, or have to learn a new set of menus/navigation.
(Full disclosure: I work for Omniture)

Snappconnor.com is a site I built to run completely on wordpress as a
CMS, like @joseph said.

My only other advice--if you can, build on your own domain, using a
subfolder off the root. Any other configuration loses all your
company's current pagerank and search-engine "cred"... This is
over-simplifying, but even this one step will do a lot for incremental
site traffic to your website.

On 10/6/08, MilesTogoe <miles.togoe at gmail.com> wrote:
> okay, we really want to have a company blog as part of our website and
> looking for advice as to the best way to do it.  I guess there are options:
> 1) build the website around the blog (ie use something like wordpress
> and have the blog dominate - a la tompeters.com
> 2) insert the blog into the web page (not really sure how to do this)
> 3) have blog on separate linked page and use blog software or service
> (wordpress, blogspot)
> 4) build own blog as a separate page on the site using php or rails or
> python - this seems like what 37signals is doing with their signals vs
> noise blog (one of my favorites)
>
> thoughts?  examples ?
>
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