[Sarthek]

Originally Posted by attroll

I know exactly what you mean Sarthek. I like this free blog software also but it does not meet my needs. I need it so that journalist can have multiple blogs and will be able to edit there timestamp and would also like the journal to fall under different categories. I asked the developers of this blog software about these options and then said no they would not do this. I even offered to pay them to do it, but got no response. So I have hired someone to write my blog/journal software with all of these option and even many, many more options. I expect to have about one thousand blogs (I call journals) on my web site with in the next one or two years. I expect it to be up to about 8,000 within five years time if not less. Nothing against this blog software here, but I could not expect them to support free software and help you with any problems you might have when you have thousands of journals on your web site. You need software you can depend on and offers 100% support with quick response. So I had to go to a professional who will offer support when he was done. It is costing me a pretty penny to do so but that is what you need to do to get what you want and get the support you want.

As someone said ?beggars can't be choosers?. That is exactly right. So if you are using this software you can not complain about it because it did not cost you dime. Another note is if you are using this software and you have a very large database of blogs and you have a major disaster and something goes wrong or the software does not support a large amount of blogs. You have no one to blame but yourself if something goes wrong.

The old saying goes something like this. ?You get what you pay for?.

I am waiting patiently as my journals are currently being developed now.

Indeed.

From our prospective, I would give a second tought beetwen vB and IPB if I had to choose again, as they have blog component, for payment though.

Third party software is not an option, neither free or commercial, as it's not much user-friendly, if guests are to be registered twice or more for different parts of portal (forum, shop, blogs...), and not with only 1 ID.

Please inform me asap, how long are blogs expected to be in dewelopment, and what is the price? Perhaps we could split it.