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This is great, albeit very clunky (for reasons described others, e.g. inline CSS issues). What's amazing to me here is that I've gone through every single link
by avivo 6y ago
This is great, albeit very clunky (for reasons described others, e.g. inline CSS issues).
What's amazing to me here is that I've gone through every single link I can find in these comments and haven't found anything close to a plug and play approach to creating static websites generated from Google Docs (say 1 hour at most for a fairly technical person to set up; just stringing together configuration options in e.g. Netlify, Gitlab, and perhaps Google Sheets for routing).
This is not just academic. In the early days of the US COVID pandemic response, I helped instigate the creation of n95reuse.com — a collection of the best public information available on reusing n95 masks, which was used by a number of hospitals (now thankfully the more authoritative n95decon.org exists).
This worked OK as Google Doc redirected from a memorable domain, but would have been much better as a dedicated site. But there was no good way to maintain that as we were rapidly gathering feedback and suggestions from folks on the front lines, and it would have been too much overhead for our small bandwidth constrained volunteer team. Our less professional site with a long redirected URL means that less people saw this, and more healthcare workers were likely using more unsafe protocols (or were spending crucial time replicating our research; we saw this everywhere). And people likely died.
And this is not the first urgent project I've needed this sort of tool for.
So if someone has done this plumbing and documents it, ideally with at least one good theme, please please, let me know (see profile for contact info, or respond to the thread on this here: https://twitter.com/metaviv/status/1245147106697863168 https://twitter.com/metaviv/status/1245147106697863168). At some point I might figure it out myself, but have not had a chance yet.
- binocarlos 6y agoWe've been working hard on https://nocode.works https://nocode.works - which turns Google docs into nice looking websites - it's not pluggable yet but it doesn't require any setup on behalf of the user. We do have a template system though so it would be possible for a frontend dev to design their own wrapper for the content.
- avivo 6y agoVery cool! For now "See, edit, create, and delete all of your Google Drive files" is definitely a deal breaker for many, but if you can restrict to one folder, that would be amazing. (As a user, I would currently use a throwaway account, and then share that Google folder with a real one). Also wasn't obvious how to remove the page footer; did I miss an option?
- binocarlos 6y agoThanks for the feedback! Yes - dealing with access to a users entire drive is something we are looking at to try and get working for exactly that reason - the words `this app can delete all your files` is scary :-) There isn't an option to remove the footer but should be +1 added to backlog - thanks again!
- punnerud 6y agoI created a Wiki (MediaWiki), now under https://3d19.no/wiki https://3d19.no/wiki (Google Translate version: https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&nv=1&pto=aue&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=no&sp=nmt4&tl=en&u=https://3d19.no/mediawiki/index.php/Forside&usg=ALkJrhjkk7uBR-hGcby-g13IHvnbNGescQ https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&...), to help connect all the best information on 3D-printing of face shields. We have a Facebook page for live questions, but fast figured out we needed a place for best practice that could be edited by everyone. For orders we use Google Sheet and had to split the sheets in regions because it’s gets slow if more than 300 people edit on the same time. Got regional coordinators to help with the coordinations both within the regions and send excess shields between the regions.
- czzarr 6y agoSomething that might be able to help you if you can use Google Sheets: awesome-table.com lets you create an iframe from just a Google Sheets.