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Ask HN:Do we need another blogging engine?
I just needed to ask this question since I'm researching for a blog engine that suits me well :)
Here is my requirements ,
* Simple to create blog post
* Need to be speed when saving posts and loading
* I love to use Markdown, HTML, images, videos and that needs to be simplified
* Simple nice looking themes
* Adding multiple pages for the blog post
In order to show this, I just created this and you can try using: http://dokeeno.com/login
Some of the written blogs can be found here: http://dokeeno.com/u/blog
Would love to here from you?
- ScottWhigham 14y agoI'd suggest you try to imagine what your /u/blog page(s) look like 1-2 years from now. I think that, with only four blog posts, that page looks nice and clean. In a year, how many posts will you have though? How will users who are brand new to you/your blog accept it if it's just a scrolling/paginated page of 150 links? How will you handle tags/categories/timelines? Sparse implementation/design is a nice thing but you don't want to be at the two year mark and think, "This sucks. My blog has become everything that I didn't want it to be" all because you tried for clean and nice.
- arunoda 14y agoYes, what you are correct. It's not good to scroll and see 150 pages. I still haven't look at handling tags/categories/timelines. These are some pretty standard so I think I should also need to follow this. With this I can add filtering in the /u/blog. currently /u/blog is the only delivery point. But I would like to add more delivery points where people can easily transform this into a HelpDesk, Tutorial Section ....
- zaptheimpaler 14y agoPersonally, I liked it because of the refreshing UI. I think a lot of blogs are very hard to navigate (especially when the blog posts are listed by month on the side, or have previous/next buttons, but theres no easy way to just view a complete list at once or search through posts), this wasn't. The idea of multiple pages in a single blog post was awesome! I didn't try creating a blog myself, but if you can make it as easy to create blogs as it is on other sites while providing the UI/multiple pages, I think you have an advantage. That said, it's also a very easy idea to replicate. Perhaps you need to identify the people who would be willing to use this a little better and offer a few more advanced features targeted towards them. I see this product as filling a nice somewhere between a full-blown CMS like Joomla and a simple blogging engine, and understanding what the users of that niche want will help.
- arunoda 14y agoThanks for your suggestions. I hope looking for a niche is the good thing and this is easy to replicate. I'm looking for the niche of create Online Documentations for the products. This suits well for them. And If I would be able to create a online dashboard of blogs by categories. This will be awesome product for create Documentations.
- shebson 14y agoLooks cool. One thing you might want to fix: most of the links on the upper right of login page (FAQ, Contact, etc.) are not clickable. If you don't have that content yet, I'd just remove the placeholders.
- arunoda 14y agoYes. That should be. I've removed that. Thank you.