Homebrew Website Club
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Who has something they would like to show that they've done with their website in the last 2 weeks? (Or longer if it's new?)
I'm at http://dangillmor.com/ I've known Kevin for about 15 years I used to be journalist at the Mercury News on tech
I teach at the Cronkite School of journalism at Arizona State, and I still write for Slate. back channel and so on
I'm working on a book about how we can keep control of what we write compared to the centralising tendency
My blog is very simple, but meant to be independent
When I teach journalists, I get them to buy a domain, set up their own hosting and create a blog or website
I want them to have the experience of installing the software on a server and setting up their own things
We normally use Reclaim Hosting, which is set up by former university people for this, and it is $33/year inc domain
I insist they do something new, whether it is their first site. They often have no idea they can do this
Facebook should not be your internet presence. They need to know what is possible
I don't have a live website, I have a few urls but nothing there
I tried setting up a website for my girlfriend's business idea, I got a theme set up but generating content was hard
I've maintained websites, but I haven't built any from scratch
showing how webmentions work with a very simple post http://www.kevinmarks.com/justanote.html to link to
I had a personal website, but the domain expired last week - it was a portfolio for my design work
I built it through wordpress.org and maintained it there, but now I'm going to build it from scratch
Now I'm at GoDaddy I should be able to host it here, so I get to do it again
It's interesting that you both lost content on private sites
I do have a copy myself, so I can put it back up again
The federated wiki is an interesting idea - you can clone the data locally
I've been experimenting with content-hashing as a way of finding sites that have gone away http://svgur.com/dweb
would you recommend wordpress or making a static site ?
it depends on your goal if you are focused on writing, wordpress is great; working on design then it makes it harder