Hi Paula, Blick, and WeatherCat fans,
Thank you for the welcome This seems like a lovely, friendly and helpful forum - what a treat!
Glad you feel that way! That is certainly the intention!
So in a nutshell, yes a great environment to build some very sophisticated sites.
Edouard, I agree with Paula. I use the WordPress engine (hosted variety) for the website I maintain for our mountain subdivision and I love it. It's simple to learn and quite flexible in what it allows you to do. It's definitely not just for bloggers.
Thanks! Both your comments are encouraging and echos what our fearless leader (Stuart Ball, WeatherCat developer) has told me.
Let me quickly explain my predicament. WeatherCat forum regulars know that I have been trying to bring back to life a 1965 Buick Special Station wagon that we bought second-hand in 1968 (when I was 7 and here is the photo to prove it:)
There is some more information on my trusty wagon here:
http://athena.trixology.com/index.php?topic=392.0Alas the restoration hasn't been going very well. In particular, I had a custom engine built by specialist in Minnesota when I live thousands of miles away in California. Unfortunately, the engine hasn't been working as promised and the latest disaster is the discovery of a lot of metal debris in the oil pan. At least one bearing is failing. So the engine will have to be taken apart, the problems corrected, and everything put back together again.
I have been arguing with the engine builder for months and this is the final straw. I've decided to send the engine to someone else with an even better reputation to fix the damage (yes, I should have gone with those other guys all along!
)
However, there is an unpleasant side effect of this dispute. The engine builder who built my wagon's engine also is the founder of the largest discussion forum for fellows restoring classic Buicks. My dispute with the engine builder is likely to cut me off from that resource. Along the way, I have contributed a lot of
"How-to" information about working on my particular Buick to this forum. All my contributions are in jeopardy in their present location on the web.
Which finally explains to my question. I may need to put up a web resource site of my own regarding my trusty wagon and I was considering using WordPress as the environment to do this in.
So thanks for the recommendations!
I'm more than happy to help with your WordPress questions. I've used Wordpress since around 2003 (when it was called b2!) so we've got some history together!
Well thanks! I may be looking for some advice in the not too distant future!
Cheers, Edouard
P.S. Sorry for hijacking your thread!
Where you able to get WeatherCat to successfully communicate with WordPress?