I'm new to web design and website deployment. I had some general questions that I tried to research but failed. I know how to use Html/CSS/Javascript and I managed to design my own website and upload it and host it using Amazon s3 / Route 53. It's a website built from scratch with HTML, CSS.
The thing that I have failed to understand is managing the website after deployment. Do I simply add HTML pages to my amazon bucket whenever I want to update? is this the way to do it? I came across jekyll in my research and from what I understood, it's a static website generator. But does it help with organizing the website and facilitating adding more content after deployment?
in other words, how do developers go about managing their websites generally after deployment?
I don't know about the Amazon s3 or jekyll etc. How I manage my sites is I use a hosting provider that provides Plesk. With Plesk I manage all my files for my sites in the file manager and I can even edit the code in the online code editor provided. It also has built in apps like Joomla and Wordpress.
I can set up email addresses for each site and also subdomains. Security etc.
When I want to update or edit my site I will either do it in the online code editor if it is something small like changing a color or just a few lines of code. Otherwise for bigger edits I will do it all on my desktop using notepad and then upload all the new files and replace the existing ones.
Each domain has it's own folder in the directory so it is easy to maintain and things don't get messy.
I hope this helps. You said you want to know how developers manage their sites. Although I am not a professional developer, I do have a few sites and that is how I manage them.
It only costs £40 per year too so is quite cheap.
Do I simply add HTML pages to my amazon bucket whenever I want to update? is this the way to do it?
Yes. The simplest way is to make changes to your files in your local workspace and then upload/overwrite the changed files to the S3 storage.
But does [jekyll] help with organizing the website and facilitating adding more content after deployment?
Yes! Jekyll is a great way to organise and generate your static site and I highly recommend it if you are planning to continue creating and deploying content to your site.
Start here, but note that it's a little more difficult if you're on Windows OS.
https://jekyllrb.com/docs/installation/#requirements
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I have a webpage, actually a blog, posted with Github Pages. It's a simple HTML&CSS page. Normally, I create new files with my new posts in them and upload these files to my repository. However, I want to create an admin panel. Especially in order to post easily, and manage my blog (like adding tags, comments etc). I don't know where to start or what to use. I know how to program in C & C#, so it's not a problem if I have to learn a new language.
Any help would be appreciated.
You may be able to use a Headless CMS. These approaches normally are driven by git or some kind of API (you don't have to write any backend code) to add content to static sites such as yours. Although most of them work with markdown, so you may need some way to render the markdown into your HTML.
Headless CMS is normally used within Jamstack projects, so I'd suggest checking that out if that is something you're interested in.
I learned that I need server-side processing with languages like PHP or Phyton. However, Github Pages is a static site service and does not support dynamic web sites. So I will whether keep writing locally or consider another hosting services.
I do not have any experience with web development, so I'd really appreciate an advice on the following issue:
a team of about 10 users currently has lost of documentation (mainly MS Office files and PDFs) on a shared drive, organized into folders. They want to keep it there, but at the same time want to have some very simple system that would allow them to navigate documentation in a more efficient manner. They cannot install any s/w on that computer.
Would a few simple html files on the same shared drive, with some links to each other and links to relevant documents in each work?
The issue is that, as I mentioned I do not have any experience, so I do not know what possible problems may appear if we just create these pages, put them on that shared drive and share link to the main page with everyone in the office. So, comments/suggestions will be greatly appreciated
If you want to develop navigation kind of stuff,either you have to implement any server side coding in your application or any jquery plugins.
http://www.sitepoint.com/10-jquery-file-manager-plugins/
visit the above site.It is offering a set of jquery plugins and most of them are free.This will help you to achieve your functionality.
I'm trying to make a multiplatform offline webapp using PhoneGap. I know my html and css, but I'm not altogether familiar with the full capabilities of JavaScript, and I've never made a webapp before, let alone tried to use phonegap to empower it.
Right now, I have the main index.html that phonegap sets up for you, but now I'm uncertain as to how to proceed. If I want a button to take the user to another page from the main page, should I make a second html file and literally link between them, or is this a lot more complex than that?
Also (get ready for a possibly epically stupid question from a total beginner):
Do web apps have to be online? I'm really not clear on whether they function like normal websites in which they need to be hosted on a server, or if they can be packaged up and downloaded just like normal native apps. Please help!
Thanks.
Oh, and btw, I'm working in Xcode with the phonegap addon thing....I'm trying to get it running on the iphone before I move on to android.
Although the other answer helped me at the time, I thought I would add a more complete answer now, five years later, to my own first StackOverflow question.
To start with, a "web app" is the same as a "website" in a technical sense, and yes, they have to be hosted on a server in order to be accessed through the browser...just like every website. The only distinction is that a web app is generally a more dynamic and complex sort of website, involving JavaScript and AJAX. It would be misleading to call a simple website like this one a "web app," whereas Facebook is definitely a web app. Basically all web apps are websites, but not all websites are quite exactly web apps.
However, it only has to be "online" if you want it to be accessible anywhere from a browser via http. If you're making a Cordova app like I was at the time, that's not relevant. If you only want to run an application locally, you can do so with a local server like Python's SimpleHTTPServer or the one webpack provides, or any other alternative, including a server you write yourself from scratch.
As for the primary question about having multiple pages, yes anchor elements like my link are the standard way of connecting pages. To link among your own pages, you would have multiple .html files, and you would create a link with an href like href="myOtherPage.html", where that file is contained in the same directory as the file for the page linking to it. Alternatively you could set up a single-page-app where JavaScript loads new page content without the use of anchor elements-- in that case multiple .html files are not needed. Frameworks like Angular and React are helpful for accomplishing that, but it's by no means necessary.
In a typical web app, most of the time you would just need to create a link as you would if you were creating a link on a website. Also, Web apps can be developed via a local environment (research Mamp/ or Wamp) depending on the dependencies in which your app require.
Hey guys im in a very confused state of mind at the moment and need some help with Word Press and generally starting a website. My parents have had a business for 20 years and have finally decided to get a website!
As im studying IT and Business i said id get it done for them. Rather than design it from scratch i used a template which i bought from themeforest.net (awesome template!) and yesterday a friend mentioned in passing using word press as a CMS which i had never heard of before, and he left before i could ask any questions.
SO basically i have a site working on my computer and i have no idea how to get it live as a .com or .com.au, so far as i can see wordpress is a blog with .wordpress.com which isnt what im looking for.
Thanks in advance
Simon
It seems like you have two questions here:
Q1. I have a site working on my computer (locally hosted) and I have no idea how to get it live as a .com or .com.au?
You will need to get a domain name (www.something.com or .com.au) and a Web Hosting Provider where you can upload your site to. Some Web Hosting Providers provide the service of registering a domain name for you, so that you don't have to do it on your own. Take a look at the following links for more info:
http://www.hostcompare.com/guide/guidetohosting.html
http://www.hostcompare.com/
However, since you are still learning this hosting thing, you may want to learn by using some free hosts and perfect your site by making the appropriate changes (if and where necessary) to make your site fully working on the web. For that period you can use the free sub-domain provided by the free host and when you've got it all worked out, you may then either upgrade your plan to premium or migrate to a premium host and buy a domain name as well. Search google for free hosting sites, there are lots of them to choose from.
Q2. A friend mentioned in passing using word press as a CMS which I had never heard of before?
Depending on your needs a CMS could be helpful. It allows you to easily update your sites content online and most CMSs come with additional components such as PayPal integration and the such that can be easily added to the site. Wordpress is one example of a CMS. Note that if you do want to use Wordpress or any other CMS you will need to make sure that:
The hosting provider you chose provides the necessary requirements for it. Ex. PHP, ASP.Net, MySQL, etc...
There is a version of the template that you purchased for the CMS you choose. If not, then you will have to do some custom coding to get the template to work.
If the site you have only contains a small number of static pages, then a CMS might be overkill. This doesn't mean that you can't migrate your site to a CMS in the future if needed.
Hope this helps.
You'll want to sign up with a web hosting provider (site5, dreamhost etc) and register a domain name. Once that's setup you can use the control panels from the hosts to install WordPress, plop in your theme and add content. It's often a one click affair to get WordPress installed, just be mindful of security updates as new versions come out.
Wordpress.com can host blogs, but if you want to install it on you own hosting server you can download the blog platform from wordpress.org and install it on your own server.
The only thing you have to be sure of is if the template you downloaded is for wordpress or not.
There is a difference between http://wordpress.com and http://wordpress.org In your case I think you might want to use http://wordpress.org It is a great free and open source CMS Most web hosts come with the facility of installing WP using stuff like Fantastico.
What are the options for having a simple blog, content management system that will deploy the full site as static html over FTP/SFTP and any blog API?
I am aware of Thingamablog but it hasn't been updated in more than a year so i guess is dead now. What are my alternatives that must export at least static HTML to a FTP server?
It would be nice if the app would have some visual gui to enter the blog post and could run from a USB stick.
I don't know that Thingamablog is dead just because it hasn't been updated in a year. Lack of recent updates doesn't necessarily mean the project is dead, it just may mean that it has achieved it's goals and has nothing more to add. Does Thingamablog do what you need?
How about TiddlyWiki. Not a blog or CMS, but it seems to be the kind of thing you need.
Today I came across this tool: Zeta producer. They have a free and a pay version.
Second the motion for CityDesk. You could probably run your blog on the free version (up to 50 "assets" - files, pages, images, etc.), and publishes static HTML to servers via FTP as its specialty. It's trivial to add updates; re-publish process does a differential between your new version and the one that's on the server, and only makes necessary changes.
Examples abound - just google for "*.cty" files.
Here's a CityDesk site I help run:
http://bv-embs-chapter.com
Hope this helps.
Thingamablog is active again. 1.5 will be released soon, currently 1.5veta5 is the latest. Looks good for what you need.
Paul.
You could use the MoWeS Portable: The Modular Web Server.
http://www.chsoftware.net/en/useware/mowes/mowes.htm
It lets you pick and choose a number of static and dynamic services to run on top of a web server straight off the USB drive or a virtual drive.
I run a Wiki off a virtual drive using Mowes at work and at home, i run a personal blog from my usb stick.
Its verrry easy to configure and powerful enough to be productive.
Edit: Heres a link to help you get started with it:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Installing_on_WOS_Portable_(Windows)
In the download section, you can select what packages you want to install. This is where you can select what CMS/Blog softwares you want to include.