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It's a bit like the old joke of the artist taking 5 minutes to sketch a portrait, but ten years of training to be able to do so. Sure you can do those things
by ACow_Adonis 6y ago
It's a bit like the old joke of the artist taking 5 minutes to sketch a portrait, but ten years of training to be able to do so.
Sure you can do those things in seconds, as long as you don't account for the 10 years it took to train in the tech background and ecosystem that them let's you do that in seconds.
I'm a techie/data scientist, but it would probably take me a week of reading and experimentation to put up something minimally useful, because I've got no explicit web development knowledge.
To my non techie friends, you might as well tell them to move a stone using the force...
- disgruntledphd2 6y agoJust use wordpress. It's pretty simple to do, as long as you don't do anything crazy like develop locally. Source: I spent a _long_ time fixing harcoded URLs in a wordpress site that my wife built locally.
- ur-whale 6y agoWhat's a word press ?
- disgruntledphd2 6y agoThis is fair. I was just speaking as another data scientist/techie person, like the OP. I do agree that it is 100% not easy for most people.
- jotm 6y agoRight... Look, Facebook's interface looks 10x more confusing than WordPress to me. If I could manage to learn it, someone using Facebook can manage to follow a few step by step guides on WordPress.
- TeMPOraL 6y agoIt's an Internet service located at https://wordpress.com https://wordpress.com. As a subscriber, you get your own blog. It's free for the basic stuff, or you can become a paid subscriber to access more functionality. (Key word being service. You don't own a blog, you rent it.)