A few weeks ago I had to setup a blog at work on short notice. Despite the fact that Drupal has pretty much all the blogging features we needed there’s some stigma around our website. The problem isn’t the website, it’s the content and its organization. However rather than try and explain that I elected to just find another solution.
The last thing I want to do is maintain another service, WordPress/Drupal/sharepoint/blah+blah all mean backups and security lists. So I advocated a hosted solution where I would only be responsible for some initial setup and training then it would be up to content people to do the content stuff. Which is really ~90% of the battle. Good content can overcome poor design, bad technology and terrible graphics.
Jason @ Pignite web design in Chehalis/Lacey/Olympia had told me about Posterous a few weeks before so I went downstairs to pay him a visit. After about 1 hour of nerd talk I was confident Posterous would be perfect. ~2 hours later and I had purchased a domain name from godaddy, setup an account and started hacking on one of the prebuilt themes to fit our red/black/white logo/website branding and we’re done. Presented it to a group the next day and people were generally satisfied. And there you have http://thefarmstand.org .
We still need some graphics done up but otherwise it’s mostly complete. A few of my coworkers also took some initiative and finished the site out by adding a list of contributors with profile pictures and bios.
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