Subj : blog
To   : Richard Miles
From : August Abolins
Date : Tue Aug 04 2020 23:02:00

Hello Richard!

** On Sunday 02.08.20 - 17:36, Richard Miles wrote to August Abolins:

 RM> It's short for Weblog, which was originally Web Log. Been around a lot
 RM> longer than the software which is mostly used for them now (Wordpress). I
 RM> hand coded mine originally, then moved to a php based software called
 RM> Movabletype, then finally Wordpress.

My first attempt to "blog" was this as an example:

 http://kolico.ca/fidonet/echos/win95/

It was my personal extension of the WIN95 echo where I would elaborate  
with images, further links and descriptions based on the topic at the  
moment.

Same thing with:

 http://kolico.ca/fidonet/echos/linux/

The idea was to have a separate page for each echo I was participating in.  
This was when I was still using dialup to access my ISP and long before I  
had knowledge or experience with CMS programs like Wordpress.

It seemed very efficient and quick to just tack on a new "section" to the  
html code as my "post".

Before I settled with WordPress I loved building sites with shtml files.  
It was super easy to design "sections" for a webpage (header, menu,  
content, footer) and control everything with shtml versions for the pages.  
For example, you could build a row for the menu buttons for one page, and  
then use the same file (not a copy) for subsequent pages. You would only  
need to edit that one file to affect all the other pages. It was like  
working with a precursor to a CMS system.


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