What's the best blog software? Host?

[crikkett]

Second on Wordpress as a good blog platform.

I have a similar question though: I'm looking for a web calendar that will support recurring events so that I can move my volunteers' schedule online. I've tenatively decided on Joomla as the CMS, thinking that I can then tie volunteers to user accounts and give them appropriate access levels... is that a good choice?

[justdrew]

Second on Wordpress as a good blog platform.

I have a similar question though: I'm looking for a web calendar that will support recurring events so that I can move my volunteers' schedule online. I've tenatively decided on Joomla as the CMS, thinking that I can then tie volunteers to user accounts and give them appropriate access levels... is that a good choice?

that's a fine choice, but you might want to check out the yuku site I liked above, it'd let you get right down to business, it can be free if you let them put their ads in, but for $6 a month you can be ad free. it's got a calendar and many other functions. you can also host it with your own domain name if you don't want to be "whatever".yuku.com

[crikkett]

Second on Wordpress as a good blog platform.

I have a similar question though: I'm looking for a web calendar that will support recurring events so that I can move my volunteers' schedule online. I've tenatively decided on Joomla as the CMS, thinking that I can then tie volunteers to user accounts and give them appropriate access levels... is that a good choice?

that's a fine choice, but you might want to check out the yuku site I liked above, it'd let you get right down to business, it can be free if you let them put their ads in, but for $6 a month you can be ad free. it's got a calendar and many other functions. you can also host it with your own domain name if you don't want to be "whatever".yuku.com

I went to yuku! It's cute and young and cool!

I expect to have to do a lot of customization, I think third-party service is out.

Besides I don't think my ladies would be enchanted with:

Send hugs, bites, b!tchslaps and more *

http://www.yuku.com/portal/features

:doh

[justdrew]

Second on Wordpress as a good blog platform.

I have a similar question though: I'm looking for a web calendar that will support recurring events so that I can move my volunteers' schedule online. I've tenatively decided on Joomla as the CMS, thinking that I can then tie volunteers to user accounts and give them appropriate access levels... is that a good choice?

that's a fine choice, but you might want to check out the yuku site I liked above, it'd let you get right down to business, it can be free if you let them put their ads in, but for $6 a month you can be ad free. it's got a calendar and many other functions. you can also host it with your own domain name if you don't want to be "whatever".yuku.com

I went to yuku! It's cute and young and cool!

I expect to have to do a lot of customization, I think third-party service is out.

Besides I don't think my ladies would be enchanted with:

Send hugs, bites, b!tchslaps and more *

http://www.yuku.com/portal/features

:doh

oh good grief. for what it's worth, I'm sure that could be removed, just like you can add/remove smileys.

[Wombaticus Rex]

I have a similar question though: I'm looking for a web calendar that will support recurring events so that I can move my volunteers' schedule online. I've tenatively decided on Joomla as the CMS, thinking that I can then tie volunteers to user accounts and give them appropriate access levels... is that a good choice?

http://www.google.com/sites/overview.html

Google. Get the whole staff on email, calendar sync. Most companies I work for do this.

[Project Willow]

I don't want to get into a web dev war here, but I'm going to chime in, if you aren't a developer, avoid Joomla, or rather, avoid Joomla altogether.

For non-tech or non-dev webmasters, today there are far too many hosted services like Yuku, no matter what you want to build online, I suggest trying that route first before you take on the headaches of running your own CMS.

CMS's

For web dev's:
http://modx.com/

For dev's and non-dev webmasters:
http://www.concrete5.org/

With Concrete5 you edit right on the page, not from a backend. It's the only free and open source CMS that offers the feature, as far as I know.