Website authoring & hosting - advice needed
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So, the folks in the City want to build a bunch of houses in a small park in our neighbourhood, practically my doorstep. We have started some FB action (I'm not there) but we also would like to build a website. I guess I am the driver of that. We want to have a basic website with graphics and stuff, but also links to petitions, and also preferably we would like to upload City documents that are several hundred MBs. It really should be an online tool - expecting ppl to download&install is a stretch - so that several ppl can share the work. [Important:] any noob should be able to add a picture or some text [nicetohave:] but geeks like my should be able to add backlinks like:
113 people have signed the petition Sign here!
(where 113 comes from an external site) So I would guess that such an online tool would have to be integrated with the hosting solution? All advice welcome. Thanks a lot!
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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So, the folks in the City want to build a bunch of houses in a small park in our neighbourhood, practically my doorstep. We have started some FB action (I'm not there) but we also would like to build a website. I guess I am the driver of that. We want to have a basic website with graphics and stuff, but also links to petitions, and also preferably we would like to upload City documents that are several hundred MBs. It really should be an online tool - expecting ppl to download&install is a stretch - so that several ppl can share the work. [Important:] any noob should be able to add a picture or some text [nicetohave:] but geeks like my should be able to add backlinks like:
113 people have signed the petition Sign here!
(where 113 comes from an external site) So I would guess that such an online tool would have to be integrated with the hosting solution? All advice welcome. Thanks a lot!
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
Tarbaby. Don't kick it. :)
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So, the folks in the City want to build a bunch of houses in a small park in our neighbourhood, practically my doorstep. We have started some FB action (I'm not there) but we also would like to build a website. I guess I am the driver of that. We want to have a basic website with graphics and stuff, but also links to petitions, and also preferably we would like to upload City documents that are several hundred MBs. It really should be an online tool - expecting ppl to download&install is a stretch - so that several ppl can share the work. [Important:] any noob should be able to add a picture or some text [nicetohave:] but geeks like my should be able to add backlinks like:
113 people have signed the petition Sign here!
(where 113 comes from an external site) So I would guess that such an online tool would have to be integrated with the hosting solution? All advice welcome. Thanks a lot!
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
Unless you want to be stuck maintaining an actual web site, WordPress is probably the answer. Evidently, and idiot can design/maintain a Wordpress web site.
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So, the folks in the City want to build a bunch of houses in a small park in our neighbourhood, practically my doorstep. We have started some FB action (I'm not there) but we also would like to build a website. I guess I am the driver of that. We want to have a basic website with graphics and stuff, but also links to petitions, and also preferably we would like to upload City documents that are several hundred MBs. It really should be an online tool - expecting ppl to download&install is a stretch - so that several ppl can share the work. [Important:] any noob should be able to add a picture or some text [nicetohave:] but geeks like my should be able to add backlinks like:
113 people have signed the petition Sign here!
(where 113 comes from an external site) So I would guess that such an online tool would have to be integrated with the hosting solution? All advice welcome. Thanks a lot!
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
Wordpress, Squarespace, etc... For more, I like to look for alternatives by googling "[product] vs" and see what the autocomplete does. ;P
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So, the folks in the City want to build a bunch of houses in a small park in our neighbourhood, practically my doorstep. We have started some FB action (I'm not there) but we also would like to build a website. I guess I am the driver of that. We want to have a basic website with graphics and stuff, but also links to petitions, and also preferably we would like to upload City documents that are several hundred MBs. It really should be an online tool - expecting ppl to download&install is a stretch - so that several ppl can share the work. [Important:] any noob should be able to add a picture or some text [nicetohave:] but geeks like my should be able to add backlinks like:
113 people have signed the petition Sign here!
(where 113 comes from an external site) So I would guess that such an online tool would have to be integrated with the hosting solution? All advice welcome. Thanks a lot!
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
Any cheapest WordPress solution should work. If it was only you managing the website and you are familiar with HTML and Azure, you could use this Static website hosting in Azure Storage | Microsoft Docs[^].
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So, the folks in the City want to build a bunch of houses in a small park in our neighbourhood, practically my doorstep. We have started some FB action (I'm not there) but we also would like to build a website. I guess I am the driver of that. We want to have a basic website with graphics and stuff, but also links to petitions, and also preferably we would like to upload City documents that are several hundred MBs. It really should be an online tool - expecting ppl to download&install is a stretch - so that several ppl can share the work. [Important:] any noob should be able to add a picture or some text [nicetohave:] but geeks like my should be able to add backlinks like:
113 people have signed the petition Sign here!
(where 113 comes from an external site) So I would guess that such an online tool would have to be integrated with the hosting solution? All advice welcome. Thanks a lot!
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
You might look into the NextDoor app. I don't know a lot of details, but it sounds like it was made for exactly what you are wanting. My neighborhood uses it, but it is generally just a localized Facebook to let everyone know when a dog is running loose or someone complaining that cars drive too fast during school bus times. I know the app has a documents section, but our neighborhood isn't organized enough to make use of that.
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So, the folks in the City want to build a bunch of houses in a small park in our neighbourhood, practically my doorstep. We have started some FB action (I'm not there) but we also would like to build a website. I guess I am the driver of that. We want to have a basic website with graphics and stuff, but also links to petitions, and also preferably we would like to upload City documents that are several hundred MBs. It really should be an online tool - expecting ppl to download&install is a stretch - so that several ppl can share the work. [Important:] any noob should be able to add a picture or some text [nicetohave:] but geeks like my should be able to add backlinks like:
113 people have signed the petition Sign here!
(where 113 comes from an external site) So I would guess that such an online tool would have to be integrated with the hosting solution? All advice welcome. Thanks a lot!
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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So, the folks in the City want to build a bunch of houses in a small park in our neighbourhood, practically my doorstep. We have started some FB action (I'm not there) but we also would like to build a website. I guess I am the driver of that. We want to have a basic website with graphics and stuff, but also links to petitions, and also preferably we would like to upload City documents that are several hundred MBs. It really should be an online tool - expecting ppl to download&install is a stretch - so that several ppl can share the work. [Important:] any noob should be able to add a picture or some text [nicetohave:] but geeks like my should be able to add backlinks like:
113 people have signed the petition Sign here!
(where 113 comes from an external site) So I would guess that such an online tool would have to be integrated with the hosting solution? All advice welcome. Thanks a lot!
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
I've not used wordpress but, probably a step up in capability if that doesn't suffice, is something I have: DotNetNuke[^] Then, for hosting, there are some hosting providers that sorta specialize in DNN hosting. I am currently using (1 personal, 1 for a religious organization) 3Essentials[^] and DNN4Less[^] that I have no complaints about.
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So, the folks in the City want to build a bunch of houses in a small park in our neighbourhood, practically my doorstep. We have started some FB action (I'm not there) but we also would like to build a website. I guess I am the driver of that. We want to have a basic website with graphics and stuff, but also links to petitions, and also preferably we would like to upload City documents that are several hundred MBs. It really should be an online tool - expecting ppl to download&install is a stretch - so that several ppl can share the work. [Important:] any noob should be able to add a picture or some text [nicetohave:] but geeks like my should be able to add backlinks like:
113 people have signed the petition Sign here!
(where 113 comes from an external site) So I would guess that such an online tool would have to be integrated with the hosting solution? All advice welcome. Thanks a lot!
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Terrific advice. And with some luck it integrates with Crystal Reports.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
Oh, that definitely wasn't advice. The best advice was Nextdoor.
