Blog sofrware - Post ID 198768

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Blog Software is what's on my mind

I just realized how out of the loop I have gotten wrt to the Coffee Cup community. I'm very active in an online Christian think tank so I haven't spent much time here.

I seem to recall that when I first started with Coffee Cup via Lunar Pages the software package included one for creating a Blog. I was far more interested in developing an ecommerce cart then in developing a blog. I currently have a blog at blog-spot. I am currently paying for Web hosting that I'm really not using right now that I could use to host a blog. Add to that, blog-spot does not have a search feature for the website.

Question, is Coffee Cup planning to offer blog software again or if not please suggest where I can find a good package with a search feature, categories, etc. Also, has any of you successfully used shopping cart pro for creating a blog.

Thank you very much
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Sally Cooper wrote:
Blog Software is what's on my mind

I just realized how out of the loop I have gotten wrt to the Coffee Cup community. I'm very active in an online Christian think tank so I haven't spent much time here.

I seem to recall that when I first started with Coffee Cup via Lunar Pages the software package included one for creating a Blog. I was far more interested in developing an ecommerce cart then in developing a blog. I currently have a blog at blog-spot. I am currently paying for Web hosting that I'm really not using right now that I could use to host a blog. Add to that, blog-spot does not have a search feature for the website.

Question, is Coffee Cup planning to offer blog software again or if not please suggest where I can find a good package with a search feature, categories, etc. Also, has any of you successfully used shopping cart pro for creating a blog.

Thank you very much
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S-Drive Streams is what we have replaced that program with. You can then use Power Post to administer it or use the S-Drive Dashboard.
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Oh no, more stuff to pack into my overloaded brain. Since I didn't have an immediate need for it I kind of ignored all the S-Drive Streams information that has been posted. Is there someplace that I can get a crash course concerning information. Meanwhile I'll start searching the Coffee Cup site for information about S-Drive Streams.

Thank you Scott, you rock.
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Hey Sally,

Check out our helpful Stream tutorials at: http://www.coffeecup.com/help/articles/search?q=stream&tag=s-drive

You can also find helpful information with our S-Drive Academy at: http://www.coffeecup.com/help/articles/s-drive-academy/
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Thank you Suzanne, I'll look into both later today. Right now my biggest problem seems to be using my Dragon Naturally Speaking software with a bad case of the hiccups.

I have less than 200 postings on my current blog so the less expensive plan would work for now. However eventually I would be well up into the more expensive plans especially if I could figure out how to let people comment. What would be the difference between using the S drive streams and hosting and using coffee cup Creator Pro with my own hosting and trying to piece together some form of a blog. As always I'm looking for the most bang for the buck and I sure appreciate the help, you guys are terrific and have a great software.
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One of my favorirt bloggers has a blogspot account so if he's happy with blogspot, I am too. So I'll use my hosting and domain name for my years old website for now: http://www.universal-expressions.com/

And my blog will stay where it is:
http://sallycp-inthebeginninggod.blogspot.com/
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Hey Sally,

The CoffeeCup S-Drive freebie plan has no post restrictions/limits and can be imbedded into your own site giving you total control. There are options for comments, tweets, Facebook likes and more.

I use S-Drive streams here: http://blog.fixtronix.com and as you can see, it's imbedded and styled to fit with my web site design. I also use PowerPost to manage it, but you can post by e-mail from anywhere as well as from within your S-Drive account and so on.

I used to use WordPress but hated the way you can't properly control and imbed the blog to suit your own needs. Maybe blogspot is different, but I am certainly delighted with S-Drive Streams and for a service that's totally free and so customisable, it's mega.

Dave
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Does s-drive permit visitors to respond? I see where you can post your own comment, but I don't see a mechanism for a site visitor to respond.
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Is it possible to self-host the blog which seems dependant on S drive?
Can users/customers steer away from posessionalism in this manner?

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