The "social" sites are sorta websites: facebook, google+. Twitter has spawned a few too, as a way to extend the 140 limit. One is: https://medium.com/ .. there are others.
Github and Github pages have become good sites too. There are companies that have converted to github "repos" for their docs. Uses markdown rather than html, a hit in the hacker community. More importantly is the Big Picture. If Design is in his future, definitely read A List Apart, created by the Heroes of Good Design on the web. Historically ground zero. http://alistapart.com/ In a quarter of his lifetime, 3-4 years, Everything Will Have Changed except for a few core memes. A List Apart will still be here. WordPress ditto. Core Web Tech like html, css, javascript certainly. Markdown too. Hard to say about the new kids on the block. Wix certainly is "trending" big-time. There is a trend amongst the digerati towards simplicity and away from blog engines .. just good prose and design over tech. I like it! To be honest, I'd proceed by: - Show a minimal HTML page as text. Removes the mystery and fear. Most folks don't know how simple the web is at the core. Look at it on a phone, ubiquitous & thrilling. - Draw on paper (so retro!) a mock-up of what he'd like to do. This teases out what you really want to do, how far you want to go in terms of web tech. Details. Design over Tech. - Then go from there .. nothing helps like a bit more knowledge! -- Owen On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 2:01 PM, Parks, Raymond <[email protected]> wrote: > There's always emacs and straight up html ;-J > > Seriously, you might look into a VPS (~= $10/mnth) running Apache and just > build the pages out of html. They won't be pretty and interactive, but > they will be small, simple, and a good learning experience. There's lots > of text and even html editors so he wouldn't have to use emacs (but he > could use it to write in ConTeXt or LaTeX to export to html). You could > make the website about and for your entire family with your grandson > responsible for his pages. > > Speaking of emacs, I don't think I shared this on this list - < > http://www.dadhacker.com/blog/?p=2357> > > Alternately, you might suggest to your grandson that he build a page about > his interest on Wikipedia (if it doesn't already exist). I was recently > reading the Wikipedia page about amphibians of New Mexico < > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_amphibians_of_New_Mexico> (I was > looking for a description and picture of the Woodhouse toads that dine > under our redneck entertainment center). > > Ray Parks > Consilient Heuristician/IDART Old-Timer > V: 505-844-4024 M: 505-238-9359 P: 505-951-6084 > NIPR: [email protected] > SIPR: [email protected] (send NIPR reminder) > JWICS: [email protected] (send NIPR reminder) > > > > On Sep 11, 2015, at 6:36 AM, Gary Schiltz wrote: > > If the website is the goal, rather than a tool for learning web > development, then one of the sites like wix.com have drag-and-drop > editors built in. The site mentioned is hosted on weebly.com, so would be > an obvious choice. > > On Thursday, September 10, 2015, Nick Thompson <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Dear Friammers, >> >> >> >> My grandson was inspired by this website, >> >> >> >> http://www.reptilesofcolorado.com/amphibians-of-colorado.html >> >> >> >> to want to do a website of his own, and asked for my help. I have done >> three Websites in my time, the most recent a few years ago using Google >> Sites. I found it adequate for my needs, but Google has the attention span >> of a gnat, and I assume they have not changed it and that a lot has changed >> in the environment since I last used it. >> >> >> >> So, I am asking if anybody out there recommends a simple website >> development tool, preferably free but not necessarily free, on which I >> could help him develop a site. For his age (12) he is remarkable nature >> artist and a pretty good photographer, so it cannot be a kiddie thing. >> >> >> >> Any thoughts? >> >> >> >> N >> > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >
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