On Apr 15, 2016, at 3:14 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > Hi Louis. > > Simple static webpages -- basically extended brochures. These are the > sites that I'm currently responsible for: > > www.wescottdesign.com > www.atomiczombieworkshop.com > www.funflyers.org > > (Note that most of the public content of the funflyers site is mine, but > I inherited it from a guy who authored it on some Microsoft product, and > haven't converted it entirely). > I can think of a couple good ideas (which I’m sure will cause more *discussion*, particularly about exactly how good they really are), but I have the feeling that basically any solution will require you do have, or be willing to acquire knowledge of: HTML CSS JavaScript
It used to be that you could get by with just knowledge of HTML, but today, its not really the case any more. My first suggestion is a static site generator. There are many to choose from. I’ve played with a couple. They’re mostly variations on the same thing, but use the superior language of the day. They essentially have you write your content in markdown (not terribly complicated, and you can use pretty much any editor for this). The generator parses the markdown and generates html pages. There are various plugins that give you extra features, and templates to let you customize what different kinds of pages look like style wise. This is where you will need to be able to potentially modify HTML, CSS, JS. I’m fairly happy with pelican. It took me about 3mo to convert 3 wordpress sites. The bulk of the work was done in about 1-2wks, for each, and the rest of the time was spent customizing things, playing with plugins and figuring out how I wanted to adjust the layout. The second suggestion is to look at Twitter Bootstrap. Its fairly popular with web devs for making things fairly quickly. Again, you’ll have to know HTML/CSS/JS. I’ve not done anything from scratch with bootstrap, but I have played with some themes for pelican that are bootstrap based. Either of these will do what you want, and I suspect that, for several years to come, either would solve the problem. I tentatively think that writing content in markdown will be a little more portable for the solution you’ll need to come up with in 5-7yrs. Not sure. Its a little tricky to see where things will go. 2 sort-of different sites I did with pelican: www.cryptomonkeys.com <http://www.cryptomonkeys.com/> www.louiskphoto.com <http://www.louiskphoto.com/> -- Louis Kowolowski [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Cryptomonkeys: http://www.cryptomonkeys.com/ <http://www.cryptomonkeys.com/> Making life more interesting for people since 1977 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
