[aklug] Re: web design help

I would recommend a content manager like Wordpress or Drupal

On May 2, 2013, at 14:11, Bruce Hill <bruce@happypenguincomputers.com> wrote:

> On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 01:51:35PM -0800, Tim Johnson wrote:
>> * Bruce Hill <bruce@happypenguincomputers.com> [130502 12:04]:
>>> My very small knowlege of HTML using ViM has not produced anything glamorous,
>>> but it's not caused any bleeding eyes, either.
>>>
>>> We (re)opened a school of gymnastics we'd sold in 1998 before we moved to
>>> China. Now we need to put up some web pages, and I'd like something that I
>>> could edit occasionally locally. We saw one site that we like:
>>>
>>> http://www.gymuniversity.com/
>>>
>>> Is there someone to save the html/css/whatever from that site, then edit it
>>> from there? Or is that not proper? Just need some place from which to start,
>>> and that layout suits us fine.
>> I found only one dead link in that page : /includes/accordian.js -
>> and it may not be used, just sort of a sponge left in the patient.
>>
>> All/most of the other files should be available for you to copy
>> and download. The jquery files are available without change to the
>> public as far as I know and it looks like /css/smoothDivScroll.css
>> is also.
>>
>> If I were going to use that page as a template, I would just copy
>> everything to my workstation, create the website locally and when
>> ready to deploy, just FTP the files to the server of your choice.
>>
>> If you don't have a server to deploy from and need to find a
>> hoster, I use hostmonster for some of my stuff and _highly_
>> recommend them although I can registers some reservations if
>> asked.
>>
>> There are frameworks and CMS (content management systems) and CMFs
>> (Content Management Frameworks) and BS (and we know what that
>> stands for) and PHD (Piled Hip Deep) and I have used both CMS,
>> frameworks, mine and others.
>>
>> However, although others may try to convince you otherwise, vim
>> may work just find for you.
>>
>> MTCW
>> --
>> Tim
>
> Thanks for the reply, Tim.
>
> Maybe it would be better to just study some HTML5 and CSS, or whatever goes
> with HTML; since that site is paid for and more than likely copyright.
>
> And, if ViM can't edit it, I'm SOL. ;)
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