[kwlug-disc] Website management tools

[B. S.]

blogger?

facebook?

google plus?

google apps / site?

Such seem to have been making efforts towards meeting the needs of small 
businesses, perhaps they have evolved to a point you find sufficient. 
Working on the K.I.S.S. principle, and the likelihood of good 
documentation and help for any given thing.

I would be surprised if each satisfactory blogging solution didn't have 
some form of 'contact me' present as well. Question will be, if such 
isn't exactly what is desired, is the effort delta to deliver that delta 
really worth it to her.


Consider whether you need one stop shopping / one size fits all 
solution, or not. Just as your e-mail and web servers can be in two 
completely different places in the world, you could pick 'best of breed' 
for each class of functionality you need. e.g. www.mydomain.com == 
mywifes.blogger.com, and have a static contact form web page elsewhere 
at contactme.mydomain.com.


You might google about around Google Sites / Apps 
https://apps.google.com/products/sites/ to see what's what. There are a 
number of 'plugins' possible, you may be able to find sufficiently good 
while limiting such so that you don't have to swallow 'all 
possibilities' (and the accompanying maintenance burden). All while 
integrating with all google'ness, including the measures google evolves 
for security / abuse prevention. I'm not advocating google, but it may 
define a possibility range to look for / avoid when comparing other 
solutions.


Thinking back to the kwlug.org platform discussion not long ago, there 
was some advocacy for what is essentially static web pages. There may be 
some merit in that - it sounded like 'create a document', 'git push', 
and get on with your day.


On 08/12/2016 09:37 AM, CrankyOldBugger wrote:
> I currently have my wife's website running on WordPress.  It's hosted on a
> very cheap (i.e. free) provider that I got in under the radar, so to
> speak.  I have two other sites with this same host. With the constant
> barrage of security updates, site-related issues, and other WP annoyances,
> I've decided that I no longer like WordPress.  So I've been shopping around
> for an alternative.
>
> All three of my sites are using WP, as a matter of fact, so I could
> experiment on one of my own sites before I start messing with my wife's
> site (as it's for her business).
>
> I started these sites with WP as they really are simple blog sites, and
> back in the day WP was actually fun to use.  Now it's a pain in the <place
> where you don't really want pain>.
>
> I was looking at Drupal but someone told me that it was very finicky and
> needed constant fine tuning.
>
> Her requirements are relatively simple:
>
> 1) Low maintenance for me (i.e. without the constant barrage of security
> updates that I finally gave up on and now ignore regularly)
> 2) Some way for my wife to post new articles in a blog-like fashion from
> her Ubuntu laptop or her Android tablet.  Please keep in mind that while
> she's very smart, she wants something very simple and easy to use (and she
> doesn't want to learn any programming).
> 3) We don't (at this time) need any ecommerce type stuff (we're not selling
> stuff online), but we would probably be open to some simple tricks like
> having a customer fill out a form with their contact information, that sort
> of thing.  So HTTPS isn't mandatory (although it wouldn't hurt).