I'm in a deep trouble like I'm creating a gaming website in HTML.
The website is great the problem is category and pages.
Like how to manage my games categories and the page like if I create a website based on 200 (all pages on games) pages but in future if I add more 50 pages (new games).
So do I have to rename all my pages when ever I add new pages / games?
And don't ask me to convert on WordPress I have tried and it mess up my style totally because I have zero experience on WordPress and the other platforms like WordPress.
I think some content management system is what you need. If you don't like wordpress there are other options. Maybe Google Sites would work for you?
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I am working on a portfolio website for a client where they need to be able to upload their work: videos and photos, and some text with (title, short description). Normally I would make such a website with a system like Wordpress, however, the way the website would work is not possible to build with Wordpress (unusual navigation and a more dynamic/animated way to switch between pages). So, I want to build this website by HTML and then connect a CMS system where they can upload their work, which will then properly loaded into HTML pages. I have tried to google solutions, but I cannot find a good approach/tool to do this. Does anyone have a good recommendation for me? Thank in advance, Jip Asveld
I think Wordpress theme is the best solution.
It is very easy to create Wordpress theme from HTML.
Of course, you can CMS functionality to the theme.
You can refer various documents by Google.
For instance, this is one of the documents.
https://websitesetup.org/html-to-wordpress/
Have you concisered a headless cms like https://forestry.io/? This ideal for static html websites, which you could combine with a framework like https://gohugo.io/ to build such a site.
I'm trying to teach myself more about web design and development by recreating my WordPress portfolio Site, and I eventually want to completely replace my site with this new one. I've done my research and taken a few classes on it, but I had a few general questions:
How would I make the blog section? Would I still want to use something like a WordPress database, or would I be creating all of that from scratch? Are there other tools you'd recommend?
What would you recommend for storing data for the portfolio grid? On my current website each entry is a post type, though that's through WordPress.
I've noticed a lot of WordPress themes have very similar functionality, and many of them use Bootstrap. Is there something the equivalent to a library that these themes use for things like landing pages, post grids, ect?
If you even just had a few links to throw at me to point me in the right direction, that'd be great. I've searched around, but haven't found too much.
EDIT: To clarify, I'm attempting to recreate my WordPress website in HTML using Bootstrap.
How would i make the blog section?
If you are using wordpress, well, you don't have to, wordpress have a Post section specified for blogs.
Would I still want to use something like a WordPress database, or would I be creating all of that from scratch?
Yes, if you are using wordpress, they have their own database, it's not suggested to modify it at all. But if you are not using wordpress, you have to design your database from scratch and either use a database system like MySQL or MSSQL etc.
What would you recommend for storing data for the portfolio grid? On my current website each entry is a post type, though that's through WordPress.
Again, if you are using wordpress, there's probably a plugin you can install to show your portfolio, the database table is automatically created when you install the plugin.
I've noticed a lot of WordPress themes have very similar functionality, and many of them use Bootstrap. Is there something the equivalent to a library that these themes use for things like landing pages, post grids, ect?
Well, Bootstrap is a popular frontend framework, that's why alot of sites use it. No there's no equivalent libarary these themes use, the equivalent libarary is Bootstrap, and then you customize your landing pages, post grids, etc with your own css/script.
If you even just had a few links to throw at me to point me in the right direction, that'd be great. I've searched around, but haven't found too much.
Look up different themes and templates here if you need it, there's wordpress specific themes too Themeforest
I've been using Rails for a few weeks now and have loved using it to make a fully-baked application. Now, I'm trying to use it for an agency site where we have services, articles and projects (which fit models and controllers nicely)
I've created the usual new/edit form views for these and it works perfectly (even have Redactor JS set up nicely with it)
The bit where it all feels a bit awkward is trying to allow for editing on the "index" pages - ie: the Services page itself would not only list each service but would have a few different bits of text and buttons that ideally I'd like to be able to content manage. Ditto for some content on contact pages and the like.
I've looked at using ActiveAdmin (which looks like a great tool, but ideally I'd like to keep it less serious and edit these pages in the front-end, this looks a perfect tool for managing large amounts of data)
Am just wondering how experienced devs would go about this? Would you have a model/controller for every page so that you could have routes like services/edit, home/edit, or perhaps there is some other way? Or maybe I'm just trying to get Rails to do something it's not really made for?
Thanks.
This probably comes down to
who's going to edit these semi-static pages?
how often?
If you're the only one doing it, no more than once a month, then just set up static pages with appropriate controllers.
If a bunch of people are doing it, on a fairly frequent basis, then go with ActiveAdmin, or a CMS gem, or etc.
Don't let 'elegant' get in the way of 'just do it'.
I am newish to html but I have the capabilities to write a functional website for myself. The thing is, I update posts on it by editing the html code. That works fine for me except a friend of mine was wondering if I could make a website for his band. No one in the band has any html experience so I would like to make it so that it is easy for them to post on the website. Is there a way I could put in like a news feed type thing or a widget where they can post news in like a blog?
The term for what you're looking for is CMS, or Content Management System. There are a hojillion of these out there, and some of them even with free hosting. Here is a directory for php CMS:
http://php.opensourcecms.com/scripts/show.php?catid=1&cat=CMS%20/%20Portals
15 Best ASP.NET based Content Management Systems(CMS)
DotNetNuke is a popular Windows CMS. Here is a site with free DNN hosting:
http://www.dnn4free.com/
We are doing real good in Google search results and have a high pagerank with our HTML webpage (several pages like 30).
Now we are switching to a Wordpress website on the same domain, and are keeping most of the HTML-pages. But we also are building another Wordpress page on a NEW Domain, here we will showcase the hardware products (we are now showing at our existing domain with HTML).
How could we safely switch one half of HTML-page to Wordpress )on same domain) and keep pagerank, and move the other HTML-page to a Wordpress page on a NEW Domain and keep the pagerank?
Thanks in advance!
Try this tutorial. It's not quite the same, but it's going to talk you through the important parts of a transfer to minimize loss of SEO.
Basically make sure you keep all the current links to your pages working after the transfer.
Import all posts, comments & pages.
Maintaining permalinks for posts & pages (1-on-1 mapping between Blogger.com and WordPress pages).
Redirecting permalinks for labels & search archives.
Retaining all feed subscribers.