So, as I'm riding my bicycle along the most excellent Arroyo de los
Chamisos bike trail I notice a lot of fauna racing furtively across and
along the trail. Most of the lizards are only in view for a second or
two and they don't hold still much, but I flatter myself that I can
identify several kinds by the way they move. Point being here, that
movies may turn out to be useful for your purpose and your choice of
site solution might want to take into consideration sufficient data
handling abilities for that, if such is an issue among the alternatives.
Not much in the way of fish along said trail, however.
C
On 9/11/15 4:29 PM, Nick Thompson wrote:
Thanks, everybody. This is why I love you all.
I should have made clearer that we are, as Owen used to say, Total
Citizens. We have no interest in webpages and computers as such. Our
interest is in drawing, describing and photographing amphibians,
snakes, fish, etc., and the possibility of sharing same with others.
Your responses have been most useful. Perhaps most telling is that
NOBODY mentioned Google Sites. Pity. I found it quite useful only a
few years ago. Why are those people such ….. /nomads!/
//
Thanks, again,
Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
Clark University
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
<http://home.earthlink.net/%7Enickthompson/naturaldesigns/>
*From:*Friam [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Gillian
Densmore
*Sent:* Friday, September 11, 2015 6:15 PM
*To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
<[email protected]>
*Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] [EXTERNAL] Amphibians of Colorado - Reptiles
and Amphibians of Colorado
As this is a list of techies and in light of this wedtech:
Anyone else mis-read that the tittle, with potentially amusing resaults?
😈
That said-
I was just through this experience of where do I make a cheap (free?)
website?
I love folder and file webpage making because as I (famously)
discovered moving wordpress from host to host sucks.
Weebly isn't to bad, but has no undue button and the documentation is
clear as mud in a few places
Wix isn't to bad either
I don't know how comfortable you two are with poking at the inside of
a webpage
I've found from dabling with way to many CMSs my wishlist wasn't what
the other designers might like they want to minify there CSS. Yet
Another Marked Down Language seems to be code for Yet Another Manual
To Learn. It's potentially sexy, but the docs read like greek written
in hylolyphs while hanging from Yggadrsl upside down after to many
parties in Veinhelm and Asguard.
If he's just interest in making a webpage then probably start with
making playing with some places then he, and you, know if you might
like it.
a few to get you started:
Joomla.com
joomla.com <http://joomla.com>
It has solid support and joomla is fun to workwith- for about 10
dollars a month get all that joomla has to offer.
Weebly.com
Weebly.com <http://Weebly.com>
It's not bad, I don't like that it has no obvius undue system,
I don't know how computer savy he is. He might like redhats openshift.
openshift.com <http://openshift.com>
openshift.com <http://openshift.com>
I find the documentation was meh partially because of it's verbage.
Asking for a fun to use CMS for webwonks is almost like asking for
favorite star trek captain or flavor of ice cream.
If you don't mind tinkering there's a bunch of very lite, and very fun
webhelper options you'll want to play with these to see what he and
you like as it's a matter of taste.
Pixie:
http://www.getpixie.co.uk/
Wonder:
http://wondercms.com/
Yellow:
http://datenstrom.se/yellow/
Exponent.
http://www.exponentcms.org/
and of course Wordpress:
Wordpress.org <http://Wordpress.org>
I wasn't a fan of googlepages personally but that's a matter of taste
possibly.
On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 2:01 PM, Parks, Raymond <[email protected]
<mailto:[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
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<tel:505-238-9359> P: 505-951-6084 <tel:505-951-6084>
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SIPR: [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]> (send NIPR reminder)
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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
<http://wix.com/> have drag-and-drop editors built in. The
site mentioned is hosted on weebly.com <http://weebly.com/>,
so would be an obvious choice.
On Thursday, September 10, 2015, Nick Thompson
<[email protected]
<mailto:[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
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