Hi all,
Thanks for the really helpful suggestions. The site is for a rural
parish council, in fact - deeply historic but no museum as yet. The
parish clerk is part time and not keen to extend her duties too greatly.
Possibles:
WordPress - so blog orientated, we just need straight info delivery. I
think too complex.
Weebly - Thanks for this one! The basics are wonderfully simple. For
tweeks you can get into the CSS itself (courage, Keene, you know you
can do it if you concentrate). A bit more of a challenge at the setup
stage but a very simple life subsequently for the parish clerk and
minimal handholding I guess. Weebly's free though and those freebies do
have a habit of vanishing, I think there's a paid for version. I need to
check if files can be put on the site for download.
NamesCo's SiteMaker service is very good, too, I recommend checking it
out. It actually has a museum template :-) It allows for much more
tweaking and elaboration.
Con's: NamesCo's templates are far too elaborate, all too few decent
straightforward ones.
Editing the basic page structures and design is horrendously
non-intuitive. I can forsee more ongoing support being needed.
One of those should be fine,
thanks to all
suzanne
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James Morley wrote:
> I assume Paul is referring to things like Fantastico? Very simple, in fact I did one last night, and I think I may have even beaten Nick's 12-minute timing. Funnily enough it matches this scenario - a botanic garden in Cameroon with no real technical expertise.
>
> But the fact that it took me so little time was based on the fact that I am familiar with hosting admin interfaces, domain registration, etc etc. I'd just reinforce the point that having someone there to do the initial set-up and a bit of guidance and hand-holding (and fault fixing, even if it was them who broke it!) is crucial to overcome some of the initial hurdles and make sure they get off to a flying start. Then you'll be amazed how quick they pick it up.
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
>> Behalf Of Jon Pratty
>> Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 6:11 PM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: Simple diy website hosting service
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>> Great point Paul - on the list we sometimes forget that
>> online access needs to be made so simple, so easy, that
>> anyone could do it in the least digtally enabled cultural space.
>>
>> JP
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
>> Behalf Of Paul Walk
>> Sent: 09 September 2009 18:04
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>> Subject: Re: Simple diy website hosting service
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>>
>> There is a third, ideal in my view, way of deploying
>> Wordpress: it is often included in the 'one click'
>> installation options offered by cheap hosting companies.
>>
>> I know from experience that this works well - it's offers a
>> little more flexibility than wordpress.com without the
>> technical overhead of installing from source.
>>
>> Paul
>>
>>
>>
>> Paul Walk
>> (sent from phone)
>>
>> On 9 Sep 2009, at 15:05, Jon Pratty
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>>
>>> Suzanne
>>>
>>> I think Wordpress takes a lot of beating. You can either use their
>>> free, hosted version, or download the full, 'host it
>>>
>> yourself' option,
>>
>>> which allows for quite a lot of user-customisation.
>>>
>>> Slightly left field, Ning also does good stuff, though there's much
>>> less you can modify and customise about it.
>>>
>>> The good thing about Wordpress is that there are legions of
>>>
>> Wordpress
>>
>>> developers/customisers/supporters who can set one up for
>>>
>> you, download
>>
>>> updates when needed and make it look really good. It's
>>>
>> entered the web
>>
>>> ecosystem.
>>>
>>> JP
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>> Behalf Of S
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>>> Keene
>>> Sent: 09 September 2009 13:55
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>>> Subject: Simple diy website hosting service
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>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm looking for a service to provide the means for a very small
>>> organisation with no technical skills to make a website and
>>>
>> maintain
>>
>>> it.
>>>
>>> The most likely source so far is the ISP Namesco, which
>>>
>> offers a basic
>>
>>> diy online service to create a simple website and edit and
>>>
>> it as time
>>
>>> goes on. The advantage of this is that a single organisation will
>>> register the URL, host the website and provide email
>>>
>> forwarding, as it
>>
>>> is quite baffling for people to deal with separate sources doing
>>> different things.
>>>
>>> But other ISPs must do this too - and maybe there are other
>>>
>> solutions.
>>
>>> (I rule out BT from terrible past experience). I'm sure some people
>>> will have cracked this - suggestions welcome,
>>>
>>> Suzanne Keene
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