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I have been asked to look into setting up a website as part of a project in work but dont have the first clue about where to start. I have registered the domain name, but thats about as far as i have got.


The aim of teh site is to host a blog, but laos have the capability of providing a forum for users to respond to the blog and debate things.


Anyone got any ideas how I would go about this, im hitting a brick wall at the moment.

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Your best 'quick and dirty' solution for that combination would be DotNetNuke, which has a modular approach that includes both bloggin and forum components.


If you'd like to do that then I'd use www.powerdnn.com who will install all the basics for you. You should then buy the book 'DotNetNuke for Dummies' that will guide you through it.


But as Loz says, if you don't really know the very basic stuff, then you're better off employing someone.

If the point of the site is to host a blog where people can debate things, well surely, they can respond to the blog in the comments section? Some of the most lively debate I have seen online has been in the comment section of blogs. Don't make it complicated for yourself.


You have a domain name? Pop a wordpress blog on it (DM me and I can give you the details of someone who can put one together for you) but the issue you will have is traffic - I imagine. Best to pop Twitter on there too. Generating traffic to a blog is not a quick process. If you want to do that effectively, you would probably be best to engage an online PR person.

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