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I work with non-technical people who cannot install (or does not want to) or build anything on their regular machines. The best option would be rather create p
by tarunupaday 5y ago
I work with non-technical people who cannot install (or does not want to) or build anything on their regular machines.
The best option would be rather create posts in a browser or iPad.
Is there a way to set up a stand alone blog (which is not on “community-linked” content platforms like Medium) that DOES NOT require installing and compiling or even a personal laptop?
- ctxc 5y agoCheck Hashnode out
- leodriesch 5y agoYou could just use any website builder like Squarespace. Other options would include creating HTML pages on vscode.dev or creating a Next.js site with Stackblitz that is hosted on Vercel or something.
- johnnypangs 5y agoGhost is nice. https://ghost.org/ https://ghost.org/
- mmcnl 5y agoSeconded. This is really easy.
- fasquoika 5y agoWritefreely? https://writefreely.org/ https://writefreely.org/
- miikavonbell 5y agoYou can also couple Hugo with Netlify CMS or Forestry.io. Those add a CMS UI for your SSG website that can be accessed for example from yourblog.com/admin/.
- open-source-ux 5y ago"I work with non-technical people..." Consider using WordPress. There are many hosting providers who offer a managed WordPress option. They manage the installation, hosting and back-ups. The non-technical users simply sign-in to WordPress via their browser to write posts using a browser-based editor. Local installation on user machines is simply not required. Static Site Generators (SSGs) like Hugo are supposedly 'simple' compared to the complexity of dynamic blog engines. However, the Hugo setup discussed in this thread is much too complicated and defies the meanings of simplicity or easy. SSGs lack comments and even a simple contact form is impossible without a third-party service or plug-in.