corzblog (about)

corzblog.. I trust it with my blog™

welcome to corzblog!

This document attempts to provide all the information you need to get corzblog up and running on your website or personal server. Usually it's trivially easy.

what is corzblog?

It's a blogging package, a specialized form of content-management software, enabling you to easily maintain a "Web Log", or "blog", which is an online journal, a.k.a. diary. But it can be whatever you want it to be. Essentially, it allows mere mortals to produce beautiful HTML documents. corzblog III (in progress) produces lovely xhtml.

You can create and edit your blogs from anywhere online using a standard web browser; on the road, in an internet café, wherever. All styling is achieved with easy-to-use bbcode. No HTML knowledge required! The "bbcode parser" that does all magic can be had separately, too.

The page you are reading right now was created with corzblog. The "blogs" menu in the sidebar allows readers to jump directly to the various entries. With a wide range of useful features, it's perfectly at home creating technical manuals, version histories, all-sorts. I spotted a site using it for a glossary system. A large amount of the copy on corz.org was created with corzblog. It makes xhtml easy™.

corzblog uses similar controls and concepts to my favourite bulletin board software, phpbb. In many ways, a blog is just like a bulletin board thread, except only you can reply.

The style of corzblog is completely customizable, I just have a thing about orange.

to run, you will need:

• space on a web server running PHP (= v4.2)
• a web browser
• something to say

While not essential, to make full use of corzblog, it is useful to have javascript enabled in your web browser. most rational people do. standards-compliant, command-line browsers like lynx work just fine. you will also need the text editor, only once.