[Nfb-web] embedding a blog into an existing site

[Dan]

Hi Benjamin,

I'm learning as I go here, so I appreciate the info you provided. I
inherited this site a couple of months ago and I'm coding everything by
hand. Although, a few people have recommended that I look into using Drupal.
My boss saw a site where on the home page a blog was "embedded". I don't
know what other term to use for this. Also on this home page is a link to
the (full) WordPress blog. She said that the only portion that appears on
the home page are the most recent entries. Of course when I asked her for
the URL for the page she couldn't remember it. What options do I have to do
something like this? The WordPress installation isn't a big deal but,
placing it into our home page is what I'm not sure about. Any
ideas/suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Dan

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis" <bhawkeslewis at googlemail.com>
To: "NFB Webmaster's List" <nfb-web at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2007 5:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-web] embedding a blog into an existing site


> iframe is not the best way to do this. iframe is deprecated markup,
> meaning it should not be used for new content:
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/present/frames.html#edef-IFRAME
>
> Frames of all sorts should (generally speaking) be avoided because of
> their manifold usability problems:
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-HTML-TECHS/#frames
>
>
http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200411/who_framed_the_web_frames_and_usability/
>
> Certainly they should be avoided for a use-case as ordinary as a blog.
>
> What is the best way to do what you want is highly dependent on what
> technologies are used to create your existing website and precisely what
> you mean by "embedding". Normally, one would just make a WordPress
> installation and customize its templates for your company's branding and
> add navigation to the rest of the site. In other words, there would be
> no client-side embedding and all mixing of content would be done
> server-side.
>
> --
> Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
>
> Dan wrote:
> > Hi list,
> >
> > My boss would like to embed a blog into our existing web site. Would
using an IFrame be the best way to do this? I've been playing with an IFrame
today and see that it embeds the entire blog (a friend's blog). Is there a
way to "manipulate" the IFrame so that only the entries are visible? Our
blog doesn't exist yet, but WordPress is one of the 1 click installs our
hosting provider offers. Any suggestions/ideas would be appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Dan
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