[HacktionLab] mark up + template -> html (was Drupocalypse v3 Can it ever stop)

[Kate Dawson]

There are quite a lot of static HTML generators out there. 
They work really well for sites, that don't require dynamic
applications. As a plus point, it's really cheap to host ( as no
database/php/ruby ... whatever ) is required on the hosting side, and
also sites will be fast to render on the server side. 

So .. if you've got a brochure site.. About Us/What we do/Example
action1/Example Action 2/Contact Us(Corporate Social details) etc.. it
will work great; and you  can offload all the dynamic stuff to the
corporates ( e.g commenting, contact stuff ). 

Markdown is very simple to learn, it's fast to write. Add twitter cards/
facebook opengraph metadata to the template. Publish to gitlab pages; share on
social media.  You can even edit the markdown using the text editor in
gitlab.

https://gitlab.com/groups/pages

It's definitely a viable alternative to spinning up a wordpress or other
dynamic app for simple websites.

Kate

On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 08:58:26AM +0100, mickfuzz at clearerchannel.org wrote:
> Don't let this stop you Mike! ( I know it won't)
> 
> But what's a better solution now for amateur creators?
> 
> I heard about jeckle or something to convert mark up to html
> so learning mark up is doable right?
> and using git web interface to write the markup
> 
> and then and active period
> and then deploy and forget with URI s that do change.
> 
> What would people suggest as a tool set to do that. ?
> 
> Mick
> 
> 
> On 27/04/18 08:18, Mike Harris wrote:
> > On 2018-04-26 23:36, Kate Dawson wrote:
> >>
> >
> > I think that's more than OK, and have the same problem with hosting
> > ancient web sites that are not maintained by their owners.  I end up
> > maintaining them myself, for free.  It's not worth it.
> >
> > (note to self: stop doing this).
> 
> 
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