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Jared Hatteberg
Courses Plus Student 726 PointsSite Hosting and CMS Classes
I once knew how to build sites with a medium level of interactivity back in 2005, I am finding the landscape has changed infinitesimally since then and am trying to relearn for some not for profit work.
I have looked through the class lists and forums, but haven't found a lot on Site hosting and the best way to hand off a website to say a church or food pantry.
-- Do you have a recommendation for catching up on where to put a website (what I am calling hosting) so that I can hand it off?
-- And I guess part two of this comment is how to do it so I can hand it off to someone that doesn't code or develop so they don't go cross eyed every time they need to add that they got a fresh donation today?
5 Answers
Sreng Hong
15,083 PointsHi Jared!!! I found out in How to Make a Website Project in library of Treehouse, it has one stage called Sharing Website. I think you can check that out, because it'll teach you how to deploy a website. By the way, I just try to answer your question, if it's not what you really asked for, i'm sorry for that!!! Good luck
Jared Hatteberg
Courses Plus Student 726 PointsI will check it out, I appreciate it. I am trying to familiarize myself still and the way I learn I am trying to wrap my head around where a website lives, and While I understand it, I haven't grasped how to "Share a website" with others, so I don't ave to baby sit it. I am sure it will come with time and I appreciate the direction as to where to look.
Dustin Matlock
33,856 PointsJared, it's not entirely your responsibility to take care of the website afterwards unless you offer that service. You'd basically hand over the credentials to someone tech savvy if possible. Most churches have someone like that. What I usually do as a complementary service is backup the website after it's finished to Dropbox, Google Drive, etc. and keep it handy for them. I guess it'd be up to you what and if you're going to charge if something ever happened.
If you're asking how to share website mockups you can Google that which is fairly simple. You might also want to check out some contract examples online.
Travis Joyner
14,553 PointsAlong these same lines, is there a way to "convert" (so to speak) a website you've created to a CMS like Wordpress? Or is it best to create a site within a CMS from the get-go if you know you'll be handing off the updating duties eventually? Keep in mind I haven't really gotten into the world of Wordpress yet, so I'm not sure how it works.
Dustin Matlock
33,856 PointsThere are actually solutions for that but I wouldn't guess they are perfect. There are however plenty of tutorials for doing it manually.
James Barnett
39,199 PointsIf it's a very simple site, I suggest you use weebly or square space. Why they make it easy to build a site that uses good HTML & CSS practices. You can code as much or as little as you like.
If it's a little more complex than that, than use Perch as your CMS, it doesn't solve the server-side hosting issues but it solves updating content issue.