#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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#59

sold on atom within the first few minutes. feels quite refined, smoother, and i appreciate that it’s open and being developed. thanks for the heads up!

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#60

Atom is also the preferred editor for Tidal (unless you’re an emacs fan). The TidalCycles plugin that allows for single and multi-line execution exists for Atom, but not Sublime.

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