Re: Web Site Dev

[John Jones <chianime@xxxxxxxxx>]

Back in the day I might have maintained a site by hand but I agree that
nowadays using WordPress or another CMS is preferable.  Especially if time
is precious your day job isn't web dev.

That said, if I were doing a site for my high school, I'd probably not do a
domain at all & just publish a page on Facebook, Google+, or an "alum" page
on LinkedIn.  Let someone else manage the infrastructure and member contact
info is updated by the members themselves.  It can be a closed group
meaning you have to approve those who want to join but otherwise it's
hands-off admin.  You also gain discussion capabilities, a group calendar
(on site sites .. LinkedIn retired theirs), photo sharing, and other
features.

I manage the social media presence for the non-profit Chicago ISSA
chapter.  Our chapter site runs on WordPress but we have pages on the above
mentioned social media sites as well as a Twitter account.  That's all
free.  For a small fee we also use MailChimp for mass emailing
announcements & EventBrite to handle meeting registrations.


On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 9:19 AM, Jerry C. Adams <midrange@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> A friend and I have a pretty simple web site; one which we designed and
> maintain for our high school class.  Pretty much pure HTML with a few Java
> Scripts.
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> Right now, whenever someone's address or such changes, they forward it to
> me, and I use a text editor to change it.  Mike (my partner), who honestly
> is the primary designer, wants to migrate it to something called Wordpress,
> which I've googled.  His reasoning is that it will be easily to make such
> changes; i.e., he or I could just make them direct on the server, no FTP
> needed.
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> Well, I'm not sure that's a compelling reason, but I'll let that slide.
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> My question is: What do you use to maintain a web site, and what do you
> think about it?  I guess I'm really asking about IDEs, such as Dream Weaver
> and Wordpress, but I'm sure there are others in the wild.
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> Like I said, it's a real simple site; no order processing involved! .-)
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>
> Jerry C. Adams
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> Some days it's just not worth chewing through the restraints.
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