#38

I’m most definitely not an aficionado :wink:

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#39

So to back this up for those of us who stopped writing pages from scratch some time around the dawn of this new millennium (Dreamweaver, text editor), if all I really want to do is post straightforward short essay length pieces, with occasional embedded images, have it be web-based so I can publish from anywhere at any time, not be self-hosted, and I don’t particularly care about static vs. dynamic (although would slightly prefer static if possible), is there anything remotely approaching a consensus on which two or three platforms might be most appropriate?

Alternatively, as odious as it surely sounds, is there any online platform that is somewhat close to FB’s mode of creating posts [ducks]?

Does Dreamweaver still exist?

Do Bobcats dream in color?

#40

Let’s get the important stuff out of the way first. Bobcats probably do dream in color.

Dreamweaver still exists.

Hammer for Mac is a desktop app, similar to Cactus, mentioned above, but with a currently working website of its own.

Kirby and Grav are two file based CMSs, so they don’t suffer from problems related to exposing a database to the web.
https://getkirby.com/
https://getgrav.org/

If you like Markdown and think you might want to use Github Pages (AKA gh-pages) for free hosting, then you want to look at Hugo, or Lektor, or Jekyll. Consensus seems to be that Hugo is most user friendly.


https://www.getlektor.com/

I’m sorry, that’s still more than two or three.

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#41

Honestly your use case sounds like www.ghost.org

Built for straightforward text based posts. I embed images by uploading them to flickr and then linking. It’s web based (I think they made a desktop app as well).

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#42

i run two self hosted ghost instances. Easy to set up (my first time using nodejs toolchain), and very easy to use as a post author (markdown with live preview, drag and drop images…).
Themes, i have not really messed up with, but making one is not harder than any other solution.

#43

Do you have a link to instructions on how to self-host Ghost? I couldn’t find anything via their website.

#44

https://support.ghost.org/developers/ has the instructions

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#45

Good stuff everyone; thanks.

I’ll take a look at all the links and see what feels best.

Semi-related: has anyone per chance compiled a list of any of our members’ personal sites?

In the spirit of a decentralized, open net and all that…

#46

Sounds like a new thread that should be started :slight_smile:

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#47

Well that escalated…semi-quickly: just rented some space on a shared server.

I also stumbled upon a moribund WP account that I guess I never actually started using.

I haven’t had time or space to get far beyond the most basic nameserver pointing, SFTP-ing, pass wording, and general -ing of the whole setup, but we’ll get along in time.

Maybe I’ll blow my own mind and have a Hugo site, a WP site (basically comes with the hosting), a Jekyll site, a Haeckel site, a scribbly hand-written site, etc.

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#48

Quick opinion request: do we like Sublime as a free OS X text/code editor?

Seems legit.

Anything better/faster/awesomer for a geriatric Web 1.0 user?

#49

I’ve been using Atom (https://atom.io/).

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#50

Atom and Sublime are both wonderful.

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#52

(as an update from my previous post : it looks like indexhibit is now mobile-friendly.)

#53

sublime, i use for everything. (but i haven’t looked at atom)

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#54

+1 for Hugo, if you’re comfortable on the command line then it’s very fast and very easy to use.

#55

I used Sublime until I learned that Atom has a built-in terminal, so I switched.

#56

Sublime development has also pretty much stagnated. Nearly everyone I know who used to develop on it has since switched to Atom.

#57

Just realized that Atom now has over 5000 packages available. Definitely seems to have caught up with Sublime.

#58

VS Code is pretty cool too (saying this from osx). Used it mainly with unity for a recent project, but it’s obvioulsy great for web stuff. The debugger is awesome.

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