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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James Morley [log in to unmask]
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Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew www.kew.org
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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
>
> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
> Behalf Of Paul Walk
> Sent: 09 September 2009 18:04
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Simple diy website hosting service
>
>
> 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
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > 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
> >
> > Jon Pratty
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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,
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> > 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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