>From Jed: > ... Doing web pages in plain HTML is not a walk in the park. > I am used to it so it seems easy, but my wife cannot begin > to maintain her site.
Getting my wife to use html, let alone an actual 3D keyboard (she's getting pretty good at typing out messages on her iPAD) would be grounds for divorce. Back in the 90s I constructed web sites using a text editor and my knowledge of HTML on a UNIX RISC workstation - an AIX machine I believe. My first incarnation of my personal OrionWorks.com web site was done entirely in html and a text editor. Most of us did it that way because there were no WYSIWYG editors in existence. Back then when I worked for the University of Wisconsin I wrote perl scripts that generated static html pages listing course descriptions. The WEB had just been born. Bye bye GOPHER! I enjoyed designing those kinds of on-line tree structures. OTOH, these days I'm not at all enamored with the notion of returning to those ancient times of writing articles containing huge amounts of embedded HTML code in order to perform things like font changes or table definitions. I confess, I'll use a WYSIWYLG editor hands down when it comes to writing essays, articles, stories, posts, etc... I seem to recall you listed some WORD PRESS plugin suggestions that might help ease the process. Maybe I can live with such compromises. ... > ... It is not hard, but it took a long checklist of operations > to transfer the data from one site to another. I will send you > the checklist. I just ran it again today to make sure I did not > leave out any steps. That is to say, I erased the version of > the web site on my computer and re-installed it from scratch. > > The biggest danger is that you will mix up the two and > accidentally delete the on-line version. I use a different > favicon so I can tell which I am looking at. I will definitely check out at your checklist. ... >> Unfortunately, putting together a local server for development >> work and then getting one’s "localhoast" web site to link up >> to the WWW sounds like it will involve a lot of finicky work >> and work-arounds. > > Actually, that part was easy. It is sort of fun to have my own > private version of MySQL. It was handy for the library database > too. You can get your own localhost the runs under windows, > Linux or the Mac for free here: > > http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html Yes, the installation procedure can't get much easier than having to do nothing more than unzipping the files to a subdirectory on your local hard drive. Walla! Done! Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
