Hello Richard!
** On Sunday 02.08.20 - 17:36, Richard Miles wrote to August Abolins:
It's short for Weblog, which was originally Web Log. Been around a lot longer than the software which is mostly used for them now (Wordpress). I hand coded mine originally, then moved to a php based software called 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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