How could I possibly . . .

[HS77]

I have a question on what the best script(s) to do the following

I am wanting to set up a daily "study" type page-long essay like thing that I can put on my website in a type of archive.

If that is understandable . . . this is what I want to do :p

What I have planned, is to have on my front page, a sample of the study for the day--perhaps the first 300-400 characters of the study--in a type of box (perhaps a table or some other sort of similar thing).
Under that sample, I want a link to the full study.

I would also like to have that study "saved" or put in a type of archive that people can search or read at a later date. I would love for people to have a page where they can search the past "studies" by either date, number (they are each numbered) and perhaps subject.

AND to top all this, and perhaps make this even more difficult an undertaking, I don't want to coding or script to be so difficult or limited to where people using certain browsers, or older browsers, to not be able to access or use this archive.

So . . . does anyone know what coding, scripting, or anything that could make this possible? Also, how difficult do you think this would be? Lol, the only coding I really know is HTML, and a little bit of PHP (I've only used PHP dealing with sending form contents to an E-mail address)

I put together these "studies" each morning, and would like them to be put on my website also.

Also, while I appreciate programs which make these things themselves, I rarely use them and honestly like to create code personally instead of relying on a program (that way I actually understand what is going on).

Would anyone be able to help? Or give me some pointers on this?

[Scleppel]

This sounds just like a blog. I use wordpress (http://wordpress.org/). I think it would be simple to configure to do what you want.

[HS77]

Hmm . . . Thanks, I'll have to check it out. Wordpress is available to me as a free script by my hosting server.

Thanks, Is it searchable though, do you know offhand? I will have to check it out later. Right now I must needs get to work Lol

Thanks again, let me know of anything else that might come to mind also, please

[Scleppel]

Yes it is searchable. There's a search box in the right column of the default layout. You can see a screenshot here (http://wordpress.org/about/shots/1.5/front-page.png).

[HS77]

Been a while since I posted, but I thank you again for the help you gave me.

I do have another question though, but it concerns Wordpress. I tried to have this answered on their support forums, but to no avail.

I am wondering if you could help me with it. It is concerning writing via E-mail. I'm not sure how to get that to work.

I've specified and created a particular e-mail account to receive the e-mail and post it, but I don't think I've done anything else. When I go to the "wp-mail.php" page, I get an error "Ooops POP3 connect: Error [0] [Success] "

Have you come across this error, while using Wordpress? Also, I think I might be missing some steps to setting up the "write by e-mail" thing. If I am, do you think you could tell me what else needs to be done? Do I have to change any code or something in the "wp-mail.php" file?

(To those who have no clue what I'm speaking of, I apologize. I am speaking of Wordpress errors and such, and am hoping those who use or have dealt with Wordpress will be able to offer any help for the problem I'm having . . .)

Thanks for any help you can offer!

[Scleppel]

Sorry, but i have never used this feature, i never even skined mine.

Did you do all this stuff (http://wiki.wordpress.org/?pagename=How%20To%20Blog%20By%20Email). It's a bit old (for version 1.2) but it might still be relevant.

You might find more up to date information at http://codex.wordpress.org/ but it gives me a 403 at the moment :confused: .

[HS77]

No problem :) I do appreciate the help :)

Yeah, the codex for wordpress is down . . . :(

Well, I did do everything listed in the wiki support for wordpress, but that still didn't help.

Thanks though :)