On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Sagi Bashari wrote: > > Sagi > > > > > ObSignal: any advice for a person who hates writing html but wants > > > > a convenient way to create a personal website? > > > > > > Is maintaining the page from a remote shell a requirement? > > > > not sure what you mean here.
Do you want to be able to change the site itself from a remote shell? This is not possible (?), for instance, if you use some X-based system on your local system. > > the page (several pages, actually) is > > hosted on a remote machine and is updated via the 'tar; scp; untar' > > method. > > If you only need basic HTML editing - Netscape composer and OpenOffice > should both do the work pretty well. Note that they are good to produce one page, but not a small site of a number of pages. > > If you need something more advanced and/or you update your website alot then > maybe you should use a content management system, such as Slashcode or > PostNuke. Those systems require a database as a backend. They are also really an overkill. There are "weblog" systems that do not require a database. I figure that they would be prefared, for the sake of simplicity. -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
