2:23 p.m.
What do you good folks recommend as a web editor please? I have my
web page and domain and it's hosted. But.... my web page is basic
even for my way, way out of date skills. Bear in mind I last wrote a
web page back in the late 1990's. I don't much care for my hosts free
web page layout program. I'm looking for something that has a good
range of templates set up that I can tweak myself if I wish. I'm not
bothered about Windows compatibility for the editor itself just as
long as it runs on Ubuntu 9.04.
I set up <www.freeworld-recycling.org> using Nvu so please don't blame
me because I know it's pants. The logo doesn't even centre even
though it's supposed to. I do have the code to add for that though.
All suggestions gratefully received. No Dick, I can't afford you to
set one up for me... I am a zero income .org :-)
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3:34 p.m.
Kevanf1 wrote:
All suggestions gratefully received. No Dick, I can't afford you
to
set one up for me... I am a zero income .org :-)
Wipe it. Stick Drupal, Joomla or any CMS on there. You'll have less
grief and be up and running quicker.
Messing around/learning HTML or PHP is a pastime thing not for a Live Site.
3:40 p.m.
> All suggestions gratefully received. No Dick, I can't
afford you to
> set one up for me... I am a zero income .org :-)
>
Wipe it. Stick Drupal, Joomla or any CMS on there. You'll have less
grief and be up and running quicker.
Just make sure you keep on top of patches/updates & subscribe to their security
notifications list :)
3:45 p.m.
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Matthew <m(a)z.je> wrote:
> > All suggestions gratefully received. No Dick, I can't
afford you to
> > set one up for me... I am a zero income .org :-)
> >
> Wipe it. Stick Drupal, Joomla or any CMS on there. You'll have less
> grief and be up and running quicker.
>
Just make sure you keep on top of patches/updates & subscribe to their
security notifications list :)
Well you could use plone as that is usually quite secure, the only slight
problem is that you will probably
want to beat yourself to death with your keyboard after dealing with zope :)
I would use wordpress as it is a lot less complex than drupal and more user
friendly. :)
7:06 p.m.
2009/7/20 Tig <staffslug(a)caveconnect.com>:
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Matthew <m(a)z.je> wrote:
> > > All suggestions gratefully received. No Dick, I can't afford you to
> > > set one up for me... I am a zero income .org :-)
> > >
> > Wipe it. Stick Drupal, Joomla or any CMS on there. You'll have less
> > grief and be up and running quicker.
> >
>
> Just make sure you keep on top of patches/updates & subscribe to their
> security notifications list :)
>
Well you could use plone as that is usually quite secure, the only slight
problem is that you will probably
want to beat yourself to death with your keyboard after dealing with zope :)
I would use wordpress as it is a lot less complex than drupal and more user
friendly. :)
Well, it does need to be very 'user friendly' and of course GUI. I
just don't have the time (various reasons for this but one being
deteriorating health which I don't want to go into at the moment) to
go into any deep learning curve.
I shall take a look at those suggestions though so thank you all :-)
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Kevan Farmer
Linux user #373362
Staffordshire
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www.freeworld-recycling.org
'From me to you towards a sustainable future.'
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8:22 p.m.
We rebuilt the staffslug.org.uk website on Wordpress, after endless
egging of Dave to check it out. He had it up and running in about 5
mintues :)
There's nothing simpler that I've seen lately.
Tom
Kevanf1 wrote:
2009/7/20 Tig <staffslug(a)caveconnect.com>:
> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Matthew <m(a)z.je> wrote:
>
>>>> All suggestions gratefully received. No Dick, I can't afford you to
>>>> set one up for me... I am a zero income .org :-)
>>>>
>>> Wipe it. Stick Drupal, Joomla or any CMS on there. You'll have less
>>> grief and be up and running quicker.
>>>
>> Just make sure you keep on top of patches/updates & subscribe to their
>> security notifications list :)
>>
> Well you could use plone as that is usually quite secure, the only slight
> problem is that you will probably
> want to beat yourself to death with your keyboard after dealing with zope :)
>
> I would use wordpress as it is a lot less complex than drupal and more user
> friendly. :)
Well, it does need to be very 'user friendly' and of course GUI. I
just don't have the time (various reasons for this but one being
deteriorating health which I don't want to go into at the moment) to
go into any deep learning curve.
I shall take a look at those suggestions though so thank you all :-)
8:50 p.m.
And 3 mins of that was ftp'ing it to the site!
(And I need it simple as I can't cope with anything difficult!!!)
We rebuilt the staffslug.org.uk website on Wordpress, after endless
egging of Dave to check it out. He had it up and running in about 5
mintues :)
There's nothing simpler that I've seen lately.
Tom
Kevanf1 wrote:
> 2009/7/20 Tig <staffslug(a)caveconnect.com>:
>> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Matthew <m(a)z.je> wrote:
>>
>>>>> All suggestions gratefully received. No Dick, I can't afford you
to
>>>>> set one up for me... I am a zero income .org :-)
>>>>>
>>>> Wipe it. Stick Drupal, Joomla or any CMS on there. You'll have less
>>>> grief and be up and running quicker.
>>>>
>>> Just make sure you keep on top of patches/updates & subscribe to their
>>> security notifications list :)
>>>
>> Well you could use plone as that is usually quite secure, the only
>> slight
>> problem is that you will probably
>> want to beat yourself to death with your keyboard after dealing with
>> zope :)
>>
>> I would use wordpress as it is a lot less complex than drupal and more
>> user
>> friendly. :)
>
> Well, it does need to be very 'user friendly' and of course GUI. I
> just don't have the time (various reasons for this but one being
> deteriorating health which I don't want to go into at the moment) to
> go into any deep learning curve.
>
> I shall take a look at those suggestions though so thank you all :-)
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10:37 a.m.
Tom Hill wrote:
We rebuilt the staffslug.org.uk website on Wordpress, after endless
egging of Dave to check it out. He had it up and running in about 5
mintues :)
There's nothing simpler that I've seen lately.
WordPress is a blog not a CMS you will notice most Lugs and Podcasts use
CMS, predominately Drupal although The Linux Foundation has just adopted
Joomla for its site.
I'm not knocking Dave in his choice of WordPress he has done a fantastic
job just making it clear for anyone reading the thread who does not
understand that there is a difference.
Depending on what Kevan intends doing with 'the site' this will
determine what he needs. It looks to me that he intends it to be a
Portal to FreeCycle in which case WordPress is more than adequate given
that all he will want to do is post the odd bit of news and comment on
various items I presume. However by their very nature you might just as
well have a single index.html(Or .php) page seeing as all you are doing
is redirecting to the Yahoo-Groups.
If Kevan wanted to 'do his own thing' then go for a Content Management
System you would still have the option of redirecting to yahoo but the
ability to 'fill out' your own content with modules and components ect.
Kevan they are really easy to use and take up far less time than
creating stuff in NVU, Dreamweaver or Front Page.
10:46 a.m.
Quoting dick_turpin <dick_turpin(a)archlinux.us>:
Tom Hill wrote:
> We rebuilt the staffslug.org.uk website on Wordpress, after endless
> egging of Dave to check it out. He had it up and running in about 5
> mintues :)
>
> There's nothing simpler that I've seen lately.
>
WordPress is a blog not a CMS you will notice most Lugs and Podcasts use
CMS, predominately Drupal although The Linux Foundation has just adopted
Joomla for its site.
TH: Splitting hairs, really. I recommend it to Kevan based on the fact
that it's far simpler to setup (and use) than Joomla. He's old enough
and ugly enough to work out if he needs something more versatile. :)
I'm not knocking Dave in his choice of WordPress he has done a
fantastic
job just making it clear for anyone reading the thread who does not
understand that there is a difference.
TH: Indeed, and it was a good example when recommending it. Although I
would hasten to point out that a fair bit of it was done by yours
truly, also. ;)
10:52 a.m.
Tom Hill wrote:
TH: Splitting hairs, really.
I have no hair to split
I recommend it to Kevan based on the fact
that it's far simpler to setup (and use) than Joomla.
Rubbish they both use
exactly the same principle there is no difference
what so ever. They even follow the same install procedure steps.
He's old enough
and ugly enough to work out if he needs something more versatile. :)
True
TH: Indeed, and it was a good example when recommending it. Although
I
would hasten to point out that a fair bit of it was done by yours
truly, also. ;)
Yeah I'm amazed how well it turned out considering
10:55 a.m.
Quoting dick_turpin <dick_turpin(a)archlinux.us>:
Tom Hill wrote:
> TH: Splitting hairs, really.
I have no hair to split
TH: They both 'manage content'; just on different scales. Both are
suitable suggestions, as you've said.
> I recommend it to Kevan based on the fact
> that it's far simpler to setup (and use) than Joomla.
Rubbish they both use exactly the same principle there is no difference
what so ever. They even follow the same install procedure steps.
TH: Your opinion, but fair enough. :)
> TH: Indeed, and it was a good example when recommending it.
Although I
> would hasten to point out that a fair bit of it was done by yours
> truly, also. ;)
>
Yeah I'm amazed how well it turned out considering
TH: Excuse me?
2:38 p.m.
Well.... all I want is to be able to display a page that gives a bit
of blurb telling visiotrs what 'Freeworld-Recycling' is all about, not
Freecycle!!!!! I've left 'The Freecycle Network' because of their
bullying tactics which are so very like Microsoft ones in many ways.
Then it just needs to give links with a brief description of area
coverage for Yahoo Groups that are the actual 'groups' themselves.
Pretty much a nice looking, up to date in the web world but not packed
out with fancy stuff, page that gives a bit of info'.
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