Re: [h-cost] Advice on Web Presence
I think the first questions are, what is your specific purpose/goal in setting up this website, blog, whatever? How big do you want it to be? How often do you plan to revise it? Do you want participation from other people, and if so what kind? Fran Lavolta Press Books of historic clothing patterns http://www.lavoltapress.com Jane Pease wrote: Here I come meandering along behind the times as usual, but I have been thinking that it is time to have a costume presence on the web, snip ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] Advice on Web Presence
It's not clear to me whether you're looking to advertise a business, outline the research youve done, explain the process of construction or just host a brag book. I'm of the latter sort use Google pages, but I've heard it's closed to new members. --cin Cynthia Barnes cinbar...@gmail.com Here I come meandering along behind the times as usual, but I have been thinking that it is time to have a costume presence on the web, both for the purpose of organizing and storing information and providing information to others. Some of you on this list have the most marvelous sites, and I wondered if you all would mind sharing your thoughts on the best approach. Frex, journal vs. website, vs. blog? What should I look at in deciding on a format? I am leaning toward a website since I want to organize and categorize information, not present it in a linear fashion, like on a blog (assuming it is necessary to be linear on a blog, that is. Maybe it's not). Also, I want site to be accessible to the outside world. On the other hand, I have seen some outstanding LiveJournal pages, so a journal site is an option. What should I look for in choosing a host? How much storage capacity do I need (I intend to have lots of pictures as well as text)? What are my best web design options (I am a cyber-neanderthal remember--I am most comfortable in the 18th century).What other questions should I be asking that I do not know enough to ask? So many questions, I know, and honest--you don't have to write a thesis. But I would certainly appreciate any insight you might offer. Thanks in advance. Jane, techno-clueless in NO Va ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] Advice on Web Presence
It's not clear to me whether you're looking to advertise a business, outline the research you've done, explain the process of construction or just host a brag book. If you want to have a website, there are books on how to create these in HTML and programs like MicroSoft FrontPage so you don't have to do the HTML yourself. If you just want to post images, there are PhotoBucket, Flikr, and dozens of others for that. -- Carolyn Kayta Barrows -- “The future is already here, it is just unevenly distributed.” -William Gibson -- ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] Advice on Web Presence
Greetings! At 10:14 PM + 6/5/09, Jane Pease wrote: Here I come meandering along behind the times as usual, but I have been thinking that it is time to have a costume presence on the web, both for the purpose of organizing and storing information and providing information to others. Some of you on this list have the most marvelous sites, and I wondered if you all would mind sharing your thoughts on the best approach. Frex, journal vs. website, vs. ... I would recommend building a web site using the Content Management System (CMS) Drupal (http://Drupal.org/). This can be done without you actually having to know HTML, PHP, or MySQL, but at the same time you get a very powerful tool that uses all those things to create an attractive, essentially infinitely expandable site. One of the advantages of Drupal is that it is not organized around pages so much as organized around content/information. As a result, you can easily place the same content in multiple places --for example, both organized and categorized by topic, and presented in a linear blog-like fashion-- without having to re-enter the content (and with any later edits appearing instantly everywhere the content appears). Another advantage is you can start very simply, and as you learn more, add more powerful features. Also, the visual design is almost entirely independent from the content, so it is very easy to change the look of a site without touching the content. Apart from installation, site development and adding content is done through a web browser, and you can even have user accounts and let select people contribute content (with what they allowed to do determined by you). Oh, and Drupal is OpenSource software, and free. You would just need to pay for the hosting, not Drupal software. The main requirements of a hosting package would be that it includes at least one MySQL database, and PHP (preferably PHP 5.x), and some way to extract/uncompress compressed archives on the server (instead of on your desktop and then uploading individual files to the server). If you'd like to play around with it a little before making decisions about hosting providers, you can use XAMPP (http://www.apachefriends.org/) to set up a local test apache server with PHP MySQL, and then install Drupal locally on your desktop/laptop computer (Windows or Mac or Linux, etc.). Sharon -- Sharon L. Krossa, PhD, skrossa-...@medievalscotland.org * Drupal Training Consulting in the Stanford Community * Independent Academic Technology Consultant, http://SharonKrossa.com ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
[h-cost] Advice on Web Presence
Here I come meandering along behind the times as usual, but I have been thinking that it is time to have a costume presence on the web, both for the purpose of organizing and storing information and providing information to others. Some of you on this list have the most marvelous sites, and I wondered if you all would mind sharing your thoughts on the best approach. Frex, journal vs. website, vs. blog? What should I look at in deciding on a format? I am leaning toward a website since I want to organize and categorize information, not present it in a linear fashion, like on a blog (assuming it is necessary to be linear on a blog, that is. Maybe it's not). Also, I want site to be accessible to the outside world. On the other hand, I have seen some outstanding LiveJournal pages, so a journal site is an option. What should I look for in choosing a host? How much storage capacity do I need (I intend to have lots of pictures as well as text)? What are my best web design options (I am a cyber-neanderthal remember--I am most comfortable in the 18th century).What other questions should I be asking that I do not know enough to ask? So many questions, I know, and honest--you don't have to write a thesis. But I would certainly appreciate any insight you might offer. Thanks in advance. Jane, techno-clueless in NO Va ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
