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I am driving an html site from my network drive in my office that can be viewd on LAN. I need to put a blog kind of section on my site so people who visite this site can leave there comments on it and all can see thses comments. Can someone help me with this please?

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I don't think this forum would suite what you need. What database management software are you using? What web frame work are you using? It is not all about web page but there are other hardware & architecture involved...

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I am not that good with html. I created few html pages and jot them together using frame rule. So it looks like a website. Let me put it this way. I need to have this blog thing on a webpage. You can say that I am running a webpage from a computer. When i say that I am running it from my network drive I ment a space on a server allocated to all the users in our office. I did it form my Network drive so this page remains online all the times within our LAN. In simple way I want to have somthign simmilar to this page I am using to communicate to you. Thanx :)

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Well, you still need a database management software installed in your drive in order to save all the data (blog comment). There are things about security that you need to deal with in order to enable others to write into your local drive (even though it is what you call network drive). Also, a web page normally does not allow access to local storage (except IE using ActiveX object which is not a standard), so it is somewhat impossible to create a real blog without database. If it is your local drive and works as a network drive, you should be able to install a free database management software (such as MySQL, Postgres, sqlLite, hypersonic, etc), a server, and a web framework (depends on what technology you prefer). Then you could start working on it. I am not sure you are ready for it yet because it would be a lot of preparation if you do not know about it at all.

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Thanks for your help with this Taywin. I guess I need to study a lot to get into this :P For now I will keep myself limited to html webpages however I look forward to establish a database to start blog thingi :) If you don't mind, can you please send me your email address so I could send some screenshorts to clear few things on my network drive as I guess I will not be able to install database management software. Its a network drive where a small space has been alocated for a user. When I login with my User(Lan)ID. I see it in my Computer with other drives. But as this is an online drive so I could access all my stuff from any station I sit, i published my site from this drive so it becomes online 24 hrs. If you could give me your email address, i would like to send you some screen shorts to get better understanding on it. I guess if you send me a message, it can only be viewed by me. So please send me you email address via a message. Or let me do that from my end. I am sending you my email address via a message. please reply back to that. Thanks a million again.

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Thanx for your time Leon however I need to have this manualy established in my site. What Taywin said is correct. I need to work on installing database management software. But what you suggested is a good one. i will use it for other purpose. Thnx mate :D

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A spammer recently bumped this thread and I started typing out a reply before I realized that it was someone who just copied/pasted an earlier post (which I'm going to delete just as soon as I finish typing this). I already had stuff typed out, so for anyone who still comes across this thread nowadays seeking the same help, I would recommend that you download WordPress and install it on your home server. WordPress powers a great majority of the web, and nearly every blog and content-based site. It's free to download and install yourself. It just costs money if you want them to host it for you on their servers.

You will need to install a PHP web server on your server as well as a database such as MySQL to power dynamic content (such as blogs, forums, etc.), beyond just static HTML pages that never change.

Good luck future bloggers!

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