#216

I haven’t hosted any audio with WP so maybe this isn’t exactly an answer to your question but, if I was going to serve audio I’d do through another service like SoundCloud or BandCamp. There may be other sites that host podcasts.

The pros from my perspective would be:

  • better performance from a second server dedicated to streaming audio
  • easier since you wouldn’t need to add any extra tooling to WP
  • wider reach since your audio could be hosted across two services

There’s a few cons:

  • you have to deal with another service
  • you may give up some control of your media
  • you have to work within the bounds of media streaming service
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#217

I’ve been considering ways to overhaul my current website, since I feel it’s a tad plain.

My current train of thought is to build a site entirely around hand drawn elements/scanned art. I’d like to do something similar to this, just maybe a bit more sophisticated.

So I’m working in Cargo. Overall I enjoy its aesthetic, however it can sometimes be a little wonky. I’m experimenting with an empty template, and trying to add elements into columns to get spacing correct, with mixed results. I’m especially concerned about layout on mobile. Also, I’m not seeing a way to make separate portions of an image act as links, which could really complicate spacing/sizing.

Has anyone worked in a similar style before? What platform did you use? Any techniques I should keep in mind if I move forward with this?

#218

I’m not entirely sure if this fits in this thread but I just had to share. So, as an experiment in, huh, let’s call it “minimalism”, I’ve rebuilt our cooking blog in vanilla C99.

Live: https://grimgrains.com/site/home.html
Sources: https://github.com/hundredrabbits/Grimgrains

It’s just a handful of small C files, it wasn’t too hard to do, and I loved it so much that I might gradually migrate my other sites as well.

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#219

Is that just an image map?
Lately I’ve been toying with the decidedly unhip / unpopular idea of just using an image map for the front page of my rebuilt site. I remember seeing a “responsive image map” plug-in somewhere.
Or just vanilla old school simple HTML, maybe linking to a blogging platform if I want a page to work as a blog with RSS.
I’m kind of a brutalist / minimalist at heart when it comes web sites though. When something pops up or even something changes when I mouse over, I just want to move on. I realize that puts me in a very small minority. I like simple, both as a user and a maker.
(Which is why I soured on wordpress. OTOH squarespace DIDN’T have things I needed eg supporting self-hosted video. I need so little of what these platforms provide but none seem to have all of the few things I DO need unless I just through hoops).

#220

Thanks for this thread! I‘ve got my nightmachines.tv website running on tumblr. I don‘t really need the whole social media blog thing though and also I don‘t want to be dependent on this service. I really just want a simple site to serve as a hub for my online activities.

So I looked into static site generators now and found Publii, which seems easy and simple enough for me to use with my existing web hosting package which I’ve been paying for for years, without actually using it.

There is just one thing that I would like to carry over from my tumblr site which I don’t know how to do: redirects. For example visiting https://nightmachines.tv/youtube will redirect to my YouTube channel URL. I’ve got quite a lot of those redirect URLs in the format above, which are posted on various online forums, etc. so I would really like to keep them as they are so people can still visit those links and be redirected properly as usual.

How can I do that with my own web hosting? Do I just create a folder nightmachines.tv/youtube/ with an index.html file in there that redirects to my YouTube channel URL?

EDIT: Found a solution. Create an .htaccess file in the root directory with 301 redirects to other URLs, as described here:

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#221

hi and happy new year

what would be the best (looking at price and bandwidth) way for me to host sample libraries on my website for people to download? drum samples i created, free download not commercial

i’m using a wordpress blog. would prefer a free method of sharing.

cheers

#222

How much gigabytes are you looking to host? Have you thought about Dropbox? Free up to a point and easy to use.

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#223

and if you don’t want to buy into another one of those big corporations that monopolize the internet, there’s a bunch of alternatives.
I can recommend sync.com but even better is in my experience nextcloud, there’s many providers for that since it’s open source and it’s usually easy to find one with a free plan close to you.

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#224

i don’t know if that is usually the case in the Netherlands, but your ISP might include some public storage space in your contract ?

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#225

thanks all! isp doesn’t have storage space in my plan.

i installed sync and will use that and dropbox as backup if needed.

#226

Haha got my first WP install hacked. Despite of all the precautions.
It’s a weird one though. The only thing that happened is that the title of the page now says something about it having been hacked. Nothing else to see…

#227

I was scrolling through this, I don’t know if you got this sorted or not.

You may be interested in Mixlr.com which allows you to stream and archive your shows exactly like you’re thinking.

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#228

Thanks for the tip. The project ended up turning into a pre-recorded monthly thing which I’m happy with for now, but if I want to revisit the livestream idea I’ll be sure to check this out.

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#229

This is partly related to the Distributed Web thread, but I thought folks on here might find it interesting:

That’s a fairly comprehensive rundown of the sorts of tech I’ve been plugged into for a good while now (IPFS/DNSLink, Git for static site deployement, Ethereum Name Service), but it did clue me into Textile and terminal.co, which seem promising.

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#230

I’ve been putting off the hassle of migrating away from Squarespace for a while now. The scary part is (well, there are a few as I haven’t built anything for the web in a good 15 years) migrating my (currently inactive) podcast in a way that keeps it up and available without breaking any links.

I was thinking Indexhibit looks fine, loads fast and can be hosted for cheap. But I’m not savvy enough to understand how much work it might be to take the exported data from Squarespace and shift it to Indexhibit. I don’t really care about the rest of the site being exported, I just want my show / show notes intact.

Anyone have any experience or insight on this sort of move?

https://www.norelcomori.com/podcast

Also, is there something else I should be considering, platform-wise? I’m looking for low maintenance, low rent and not a lot of heavy lifting to get off the ground.

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#231

seeking some recommendations on ecommerce/shop backends to integrate into a small custom site. hopefully simple/cheap which seems hard to come by in this space

#232

if your question doesn’t get much traction here, it might be worth making another top-level thread about this? it’s not entirely obvious from the title “Blogging Platforms” that everyone with knowledge about ecommerce will check this thread.

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#233

What’re you selling? What kind of volume do you expect? How many SKU’s?

#234

art, small everything

#235

The most low tech way to do it is with PayPal buttons. Here’s some friends of mine that didn’t want to shell out for a product or service and wanted to be able to maintain it themselves: https://sioum.com/merch/ PayPal can generate the HTML which you then just drop in.

IMO I would steer you towards something like Bandcamp (if you can rationalize relating it to your music) or even Etsy. I’ve worked with Ecommerce plugins like Shopify and WooCommerce and they are so freaking complicated that paying a small monthly fee or transaction fee is worth the time you save from it.

If I had to choose from anything in this list I’d go with Big Cartel, Squarespace, or the Square Online Store.

(edit: I should add there’s no shame at in linking out to an external site for your shop - just brand it super minimal with a link back to your main site.)

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