Recommendations for Web Page Software?

ME! ^ | 04/29/21 | 50sDad

[zeugma]

The days of writing pure html or using an html editor for a personal site are long gone.

People keep saying that, and I know it's largely true, but I've been doing straight html with a really simple editor for years for my own personal site. I've considered doing a conversion to CSS or something, but it would be a huge amount of work, that I'm just not interested in. My site is primarily for my own enjoyment in any case. If anyone besides google bots even know it exists, that's news to me. :-)

[tsomer]

I tried to do Wordpress but
I wanted to build a menu structured archive for a bunch of theme-based drawings/cartoons I’d drawn along with some writings. It was a simple tree-structure in conception.

It was taking forever to load the images using their database access controls. (I have to keep it simple since I’m something of a bat-brain and barely capable of that.)

Anyway, I got frustrated and quit for a while—but before I got back to it google had commandeered the “.dev” extention—if I recall correctly and I couldn’t retrieve my previous work.
Sob story I know, but someone later told me that Wordpress was the wrong platform for what I wanted to do. I’m just passing this along; I hate WordPress like I hate google.

Anybody got any ideas about retrieving those old files from the backups? Are there any templates or procedures for archive menus—like say the old Mcmaster-Carr front page?
I could forgive Wordpress.

[Pollard]

https://picocms.org/ Lightweight, no database, write in markdown code which is easy to learn and much simpler and more human readable than html.

Here’s a Markdown cheatsheet. https://www.markdownguide.org/cheat-sheet

WordPress is the most fully featured and widely used CMS. Much more user friendly than Joomla or Drupal.

Has a built in WYSIWYG editor. (What You See Is What You Get)

WordFence is the best security plugin for WordPress.

Digital Ocean hosting is meant for developers and not the most user friendly system. I use A2Hosting.com. Fast and affordable. You get cpanel with Softaculous which has one click installation of WordPress and many other CMSs. They also have wordpress hosting that has wordpress preinstalled with the server preconfigured for high performance. $2.99/mth if you pay for three years at once.

Good WordPress themes; Astra, GeneratePress, Zakra.

WordPress plugins:

WordFence security
Classic Editor (uses wp’s old editor which is more user friendly than their new one)
Contact Form 7
Contact Form 7 Image Captcha (simple question the used must answer before they click submit)
Honeypot for Contact Form 7 (invisible field that only bots will fill in)
Distinctive Lightbox (click a pic and it gets full size with a popup)
Post SMTP (SMTP email instead of phpMail - less chance of emails being considered spam)
Rank Math SEO (Search Engine Optimization)
WebP Converter for Media (converts jpg or png to WebP for tiny file size - better page load speed)

I use Pico for basic sites and WordPress if I need more features or complexity.

https://www.markdownguide.org/tools/joplin/

Joplin is a nootkeeping program that also uses MarkDown and can be synced to a nextcloud installation. https://joplinapp.org/

Available for Windows 32 and 64 bit, Mac OS, Linux, Android and iOS.

[z3n]

Nice list

I am replying to bookmark for future reference

[Bikkuri]

See if you can find an OLD version of Dreamweaver, before Adobe bought it.

[The Duke]

What is one that comes to mind?

[Openurmind]

Oh man... There are a bunch... What are you looking for? Book keeping, Automatic appointment management, Support tickets and chat, Photo albums, forums, Simple blogs, Stores, Social networking like facebook or Twitter... There are hundreds that you can just drop in and go to work with. Need to start with what kind of site you would need first. I have played with a lot of them and have an idea what would be best for what. :)

[daniel1212]

I just make a document using Apache or Libre Open Office, and use tables and do formatting and create links (Insert function or a keyboard shortcut you can make) and save the document as html and open it locally in a browser. That is how I made pages for our web site, http://www.peacebyjesus.net thanks be to God.

[50sDad]

WOW!!!!!!

Thanks to everybody! I’ll dig in and get going!!!!!

[Gene Eric]

>> Adobe Dreamweaver

The team that wrote Dreamweaver plugins created their own design environment a few years ago. I forgot about this in my previous post.

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