Hi Keith, The first consideration is if the website be BU hosted or independently hosted. For example, is this personal research for the students and they should maintain responsibility for content moving forward (e.g. professional portfolio)? or are these websites for BU projects where responsibility should stay with the research team?
Wordpress is an easy/quick option for people who are new the website thing, but it has good HTML editing capabilities for customization. Looks like BU has a hosted instance of wordpress: http://www.bu.edu/tech/services/comm/websites/www/wordpress/. Otherwise, wordpress.com is quite easy and they even provide domain registration. Presuming that github is not common knowledge for students in these departments, Wordpress doesn't really have any knowledge requirements that would prevent update rot after grad student turnover. It is also suitable to get people started with just an hour long workshop. Elizabeth On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 8:40 AM, Ma, Keith Frederick <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > A group of graduate students here at Boston Univ. contacted me for help > planning and running a workshop on making research websites. The vision is > to provide an overview of some popular tools and what they are capable of, > followed by some time for the students to start working on their own > websites with the instructors and each other to help. This is still in the > early planning stages, with a tentative date in late February. > > I don't have much (any) experience in making websites, and am unfamiliar > with the associated software and hosting services. Can anyone provide some > advice about what we should include? Does anyone have experience running a > similar workshop? > > Many thanks, > Keith Ma > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org >
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