Fast loading blog script?

[draggar]

I have a client who is at 56K (he lives in the boonies, no cable, DSL, even satellite). He's semi-interested in a blog on his site, but Blogger and Wordpress load up too slowly for him (mainly due to the graphic-heavy pages).

Is there a script out there for text only (heck, even like the old UseNet forums) out there that I could try for the site?

[jtara]

Is your client's site on the 56K line (why?) or is it just that your client is on a 56k connection when he accesses the Internet?

Is it the user presentation, or the administrative (editing)interface that he's concerned about?

In either case, I'd think that most blog software can be rendered suitable.

It's just a matter of altering the CSS and (possibly, as well) template(s) within the blogging package.

I don't think there's a need to seek-out a special package for this.

[draggar]

He only has a 56K connection, the site is hosted with my hosting company.

I'll look into editing WordPress' CSS files and see if I can make a no-graphics version.

Thanx.

[physics]

There are programs that the user can install on their PC/Mac and use to view/post data to the blog. This would use the minimal amount of bandwidth. See, for example:
[versiontracker.com...]

[lammert]

I use Wordpress on a 56k regularly. You can increase the speed by properly setting the cache and expiration headers for the css, javascript and image files. In that case only the first time he connects to Wordpress the static site furniture will be loaded.

To increase the load speed of the php files, you can add compression. In Apache you have to add the following two lines to the VirtualHost section of the website:

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml text/css
DeflateCompressionLevel 9

After these modifications load times won't be a problem anymore.