This is my site: http://www.waynerooneyonline.com I am thinking of changing the way my site displays the news stories down the centre of the page. I want it to be a bit more interactive for users - i.e allow comments like a blog. Should I just use wordpress on the site or is there another easy to customise CMS anyone can recommend. I'm not overly good at customising non-HTML code. The only major thing I'm worried about is SEO for the new CMS. At the moment it just creates a random number for each article. e.g http://www.waynerooneyonline.com/article.php?artid=385 I would like to be able to put a title in to help the search engines. thanks in advance.
plus is there an easy way for me to set up a wordpress blog away from my index page while I work on it, then move it to my index? thanks
For the SEO-friendly URIs you should use .htaccess. Not to long ago I had to make a tutorial of it and it's actually pretty easy, it shouldn't be that hard to search a tutorial about it. Yes you can install wordpress in another map, so make a map wordpress on your ftp, upload the wordpress script in there and install the script, then make all the necessary changes to it until it's ready for launch. Celox
How would I install wordpress in a different directory and then move it? Would I have to change all the database locations etc... Would the blog not automatically create file names with titles without .htaccess? e.g. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/09/our-plans-for-code-jam.html
Wordpress automatically will create the .htaccess for you, provided your permissions are correct. You would not have to change the database location at all, just the blog location. Check out the "Moving wordpress within your site" section at this link