web ranty
Argh.
I do not want to become a website designer, I just want to have a frickin website.
So I've been using a beginner-type free web host which allowed me to build the website for Stone City using their little wizard thingy. It worked okay, and made a serviceable website. Except a bunch of functions were limited or disallowed due to it being a free site. So we thought we should migrate to the next step up.
black_reaver kindly offered to build us a website since he was studying web design anyhow, so I have set up a new, paid hosting service, which will allow us to upload the site he's building and not have restrictions on how we use the site.
Problem now is that I need to be able to update and edit and add to the site without constantly pestering my friend, and I have no software for doing that. The host offers all sorts of weapons for content editing and management that are pretty cool: a bunch of stuff I've never heard of like Joomla and Drupal and umpty-bazillion other tools that, it turns out are WAY, way over my head, and I can't tell if they're compatible with what he's building anyhow or would even allow me to do the small regular updates that I need to be able to do. Plus, I have a side project that will need its own subdomain, so I have to build something myself one way or another, but every time I try to use this stuff I get completely lost. I'm so irritated with this whole mess. I don't want to learn web design, it's a huge complex field and I really don't have time to deal with this at all. I just need something in the middle between stiflingly limited free template sites, and "here's your web space and a ton of confusing tools now build it yourself".
I do not want to become a website designer, I just want to have a frickin website.
So I've been using a beginner-type free web host which allowed me to build the website for Stone City using their little wizard thingy. It worked okay, and made a serviceable website. Except a bunch of functions were limited or disallowed due to it being a free site. So we thought we should migrate to the next step up.
black_reaver kindly offered to build us a website since he was studying web design anyhow, so I have set up a new, paid hosting service, which will allow us to upload the site he's building and not have restrictions on how we use the site.
Problem now is that I need to be able to update and edit and add to the site without constantly pestering my friend, and I have no software for doing that. The host offers all sorts of weapons for content editing and management that are pretty cool: a bunch of stuff I've never heard of like Joomla and Drupal and umpty-bazillion other tools that, it turns out are WAY, way over my head, and I can't tell if they're compatible with what he's building anyhow or would even allow me to do the small regular updates that I need to be able to do. Plus, I have a side project that will need its own subdomain, so I have to build something myself one way or another, but every time I try to use this stuff I get completely lost. I'm so irritated with this whole mess. I don't want to learn web design, it's a huge complex field and I really don't have time to deal with this at all. I just need something in the middle between stiflingly limited free template sites, and "here's your web space and a ton of confusing tools now build it yourself".