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

[mickfuzz at clearerchannel.org]

In terms of sharing the workload, as clara discussed
A community run server running discourse instances would be a good
resource if people didn't want to off load comments / discussion to the
corporates via embedding disqus or similar.

There's already a docker image
https://github.com/discourse/discourse_docker

I'm not volunteering personally mind, I'm just interested in tactics
delivering non corporate web presence in partnership with others.

Thanks
Mick


On 27/04/18 13:30, mickfuzz at clearerchannel.org wrote:
> I like that link!
>
> This seems like a good workflow to do skill sharing around in activist /
> campaign and community networks.
>
> Mick
>
>
> On 27/04/18 12:56, Kate Dawson wrote:
>> 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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