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Along these lines, does anyone have any recommendations for a service or framework to create a simple personal site? I just want a basic blog, project pages, an

by mafuyu 6y ago

Along these lines, does anyone have any recommendations for a service or framework to create a simple personal site? I just want a basic blog, project pages, and photo gallery. I use Jekyll at the moment to statically generate pages to host on github.io, but frankly, I don't have much webdev experience and I'd rather just have something work out of the box at this point.

juliend2 6y ago
I would say: start by doing pure HTML, then progressively work with PHP to include header.php/footer.php on every page. Then create helper functions for a few things you don't wanna repeat. You'll be surprised by how good it feels to know your website from A to Z. This is what I do for my own site: https://www.juliendesrosiers.com/ https://www.juliendesrosiers.com/ . Almost every URL ends with an old-school .php for that very reason lol. But I like the fact that every time i want to modify something, I simply SSH into my dreamhost account and use vim to edit posts and pages. But om your case it could be https://www.panic.com/coda/ https://www.panic.com/coda/ . And if starting from nothing seem scary, you can always start with a basic themeforest theme, or a framework like Bootstrap. Having the html-css already done goes a long way.
- simonbarker87 6y ago
  This is exactly what I did a few weeks ago after getting fed up of Wordpress for my personal site. Static HTML pages and some php for the header the and the blog homepage. It means I need to write in plain HTML but that’s fine, the only js is prism syntax highlighting.
astura 6y ago
WordPress?
TeddyDD 6y ago
Hugo is great. It's feature packed static website generator. There is plenty of templates you can use and modify. https://gohugo.io/ https://gohugo.io/
system2 6y ago
Why not $5 Digital Ocean hosting + wordpress image + $20 wordpress theme with visual composer from themeforest? You can also use the digital ocean hosting to serve many other sites not only one.
mattlondon 6y ago
Personally I'd stick with the static site generators. If you get something like wordpress installed on your own server, you now need to then commit doing the upgrades for it. I've been burnt enough times with self-hosted things like this where I missed an upgrade for whatever reason (real-life etc) and the site was hacked very, very quickly. There are ones that auto-update themselves but I have found that those have their own issues so cannot be relied upon. Static site generators tend not to have this problem.

by mafuyu 6y ago

juliend2 6y ago

I would say: start by doing pure HTML, then progressively work with PHP to include header.php/footer.php on every page. Then create helper functions for a few things you don't wanna repeat. You'll be surprised by how good it feels to know your website from A to Z. This is what I do for my own site: https://www.juliendesrosiers.com/ https://www.juliendesrosiers.com/ . Almost every URL ends with an old-school .php for that very reason lol. But I like the fact that every time i want to modify something, I simply SSH into my dreamhost account and use vim to edit posts and pages. But om your case it could be https://www.panic.com/coda/ https://www.panic.com/coda/ . And if starting from nothing seem scary, you can always start with a basic themeforest theme, or a framework like Bootstrap. Having the html-css already done goes a long way.

simonbarker87 6y ago
This is exactly what I did a few weeks ago after getting fed up of Wordpress for my personal site. Static HTML pages and some php for the header the and the blog homepage. It means I need to write in plain HTML but that’s fine, the only js is prism syntax highlighting.

astura 6y ago

WordPress?

TeddyDD 6y ago

Hugo is great. It's feature packed static website generator. There is plenty of templates you can use and modify. https://gohugo.io/ https://gohugo.io/

system2 6y ago

Why not $5 Digital Ocean hosting + wordpress image + $20 wordpress theme with visual composer from themeforest? You can also use the digital ocean hosting to serve many other sites not only one.

mattlondon 6y ago

Personally I'd stick with the static site generators. If you get something like wordpress installed on your own server, you now need to then commit doing the upgrades for it. I've been burnt enough times with self-hosted things like this where I missed an upgrade for whatever reason (real-life etc) and the site was hacked very, very quickly. There are ones that auto-update themselves but I have found that those have their own issues so cannot be relied upon. Static site generators tend not to have this problem.