[aklug] Re: AKLUG and others

* Christopher Howard <choward@indicium.us> [2010-03-05 02:45 -0400]:
> bruce@slackwarebox.com wrote:
> > Speaking of which ... we have a website, and I am presently
> > transferring the registration and hosting. Now I need to design
> > something and am looking to learn HTML. I've seen various HOW-TO
> > articles, but I don't particularly want to spend time "building a
> > website" which says "Hurrah! This is my first website." I'd prefer
> > to actually just learn the syntax or whatever is appropriate for
> > HTML/XHTML and possibly CSS, since it seems that a lot of websites
> > today are styled with CSS.
> >
> > And, for those zealots, I'll only be using ViM to code the site. Any
> > good tutorials online that you guys would suggest?
>
> Somehow, my every question about HTML or CSS ultimately leads me to the
> same place:
>
> http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp

Indeed - everytime I am messing with [X]HTML/CSS I end up there for
some bit of knowledge as well. I especially like their "try it"
sections for each tag.

> I by no means fashion myself to be an /expert/ web designer. However,
> I would strongly suggest that, rather than maintaining each web page
> separately, you learn some scripting language and design a system
> whereby the basic framework of each page is written automatically by a
> script. Then if you want to change the framework of your entire
> website you need only modify your script. This can be done fairly
> easily with PHP, Perl/CGI, or a number of other means.

It can, but I might recommend looking at a wiki instead of coding it
yourself for the sake of not reinventing the wheel. Should you not want
the general public editing, then locking the page editing to admin users
is easy. If you prefer command-line, may I recommend ikiwiki [1] with a
git [2] backend? That's what I've been using, and being able to
edit/commit/push and have a website update is fun (for sick people like
me ;).

[1]: http://ikiwiki.info
[2]: http://git-scm.com

It's barebones (in the looks department) when you first set it up, but
that can all be changed via CSS.

Regards,

-- 
dave [ please don't CC me ]
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