I want to post news on my site

[iansilv]

Hi! I am wondering if someone can point me in the right direction on how to setup a program on my website to post news cascading down, with the newest news on top, summary lines, etc- what is the best program to use so I can login and post news? Thank you in advance!

[ballygobackwards]

what platform are you using?

[SashaCorinne]

Try a blog.

[encyclo]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld [webmasterworld.com], iansilv.

I would second SashaCorinne's suggestion: a blog package sounds ideal for your needs. Popular blog packages include WordPress and Movable Type.

You will need hosting with a MySQL or other database available, but that is quite common (check with your host). WordPress uses the PHP scripting language, and Movable Type uses Perl: again, you should check with your host that they offer these. You don't need to learn those languages, however, to get the blog package up and running.

[mack]

Hi there,

A news posting script or a blog script is just what you are looking for. Generaly they have an admin area where you log in, type your news or articles, click submit an dthe news appears on your pages.

You might want to have a look through some of the script resources such as hotscripts.com

Mack.

[faltered]

If you don't have access to a MySQL database, you can use SimplePHPBlog. It saves all of the information in folders on the server, instead. Nice and light, I've been using it for a couple months. And you can customize it.

You can find it on sourceforge I think.