[Bradford] Fw: Website Construction

[Dick Thomas]

worth noting if you are going diy wordpress
http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/12/hackers-point-large-botnet-at-wordpress-sites-to-steal-admin-passwords-and-gain-server-access/

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On 15 April 2013 10:25, David Carpenter <david.carpenter at nornir.co.uk> wrote:
> If they go DIY with Wordpress, I may give up an hour or two to help
> get them started. They can contact me via this email address if they
> want to discuss.
>
> Cheers
> David
>
> On 14 April 2013 15:59, Paul Colley <pchcolley at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>> Thanks to David/John/Dick. I shall pass on that the consensus is DIY with
>> Wordpress. My 'fear' is that they will go somewhere like Electroville and
>> throw money at it unnecessarily, but hey ho...
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Paul.
>>
>> ________________________________
>> From: Dick Thomas <xpd259 at gmail.com>
>> To: John McLear <john at mclear.co.uk>
>> Cc: David Carpenter <david.carpenter at nornir.co.uk>; Paul Colley
>> <pchcolley at yahoo.co.uk>; BradLUG <bradford at mailman.lug.org.uk>
>> Sent: Thursday, 11 April 2013, 14:44
>>
>> Subject: Re: [Bradford] Fw: Website Construction
>>
>> While I like Wordpress my +1 goes to blogger
>> As it's free to have a domain name pointed to your blog once you have paid
>> for it from any provide and you can edit the html to your heart's desire
>> To achive the look you wish, plus you can embed code in posts and "widgets"
>> etc
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Dick
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> About.me http://about.me/dick.thomas
>> Blog: www.xpd259.co.uk
>> G+:   www.google.com/profiles/xpd259
>>
>>
>>
>> On 11 April 2013 10:48, John McLear <john at mclear.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> +1 for Wordpress.com
>>
>> Things you can't do
>> No Embed so no embedding primarywall, primarypad, wordle, voki etc.
>> [Excludes youtube and vimeo]
>> No XMLRPC so no ability to use mobile apps such as classdroid.
>> You can’t use your own domain IE myschoolblog.com
>> You can’t heavily modify themes so changing the layout of your blog can be
>> difficult.
>> No plugin uploads so you can’t access the millions of plugins available in
>> the wordpress Codex.
>>
>> Things you can..
>> No need to worry about growth, wordpress.com can handle millions of requests
>> per second.
>> No need to worry about upgrades or updates.
>> Preview new versions of WordPress.
>> All of your data is backed up and protected for you.
>> Comes pre-loaded with a spam filter.
>>
>> Shamelessly stolen from:
>> http://mclear.co.uk/2011/09/03/wordpress-com-vs-primaryblogger-vs-self-hosted/
>>
>>
>> John McLear
>> McLear Ltd
>> Etherpad Foundation
>> Primary Technology Ltd
>>
>>> Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 09:30:15 +0100
>>> From: david.carpenter at nornir.co.uk
>>> To: pchcolley at yahoo.co.uk
>>> CC: bradford at mailman.lug.org.uk
>>
>>> Subject: Re: [Bradford] Fw: Website Construction
>>>
>>> My advice would be for them to look at Wordpress.com
>>>
>>> Their current site is not very complicated and would transfer via copy
>>> and paste quickly.
>>>
>>> A domain can be bought easily at an independent supplier, or through
>>> wordpress.com. (it then costs $10 a year to 'map' the domain to
>>> wordpress.com software, otherwise the hosting costs are zero)
>>>
>>> If they out grow the site, they would then be on a portable platform
>>> where they can take it onto their own servers in future.
>>>
>>> Add in something like google calendar for their events and they'd
>>> basically have the BradLIUG site!
>>>
>>> They may need some help to achieve this, and with any project like
>>> this is worth working out what the capacity is within the organisation
>>> to cope with their website, but in my experience Wordpress is picked
>>> up quite quickly be people and is quite easy to look after.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> David
>>>
>>> On 10 April 2013 15:29, Paul Colley <pchcolley at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>> > This is what the Society in question has at present
>>> >
>>> > http://www.communigate.co.uk/brad/standrewssocietybradford/
>>> >
>>> > Constructors of Scottish heritage will be looked upon favourably, I
>>> > imagine.
>>> >
>>> > P.
>>> >
>>> > ________________________________
>>> > From: Paul Colley <pchcolley at yahoo.co.uk>
>>> > To: John Robert Hudson <j.r.hudson at virginmedia.com>
>>> > Cc: BradLUG <bradford at mailman.lug.org.uk>
>>> > Sent: Wednesday, 10 April 2013, 14:26
>>> >
>>> > Subject: Re: [Bradford] Fw: Website Construction
>>> >
>>> > Here is the response:
>>> >
>>> > Do they want help:
>>> > · to obtain a domain name Yes
>>> > · to host a website No
>>> > · to set up their own website Yes
>>> > · to create a website from scratch Preferably
>>> > · to create a website using templates Possibly
>>> > · to create a website using a content management system ??
>>> > · primarily to provide information Yes
>>> > · primarily to interact with people, whether their own volunteers or
>>> > the wider community? Eventually yes
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > We only need ball park figures initially and maybe a look at someone’s
>>> > previous work.
>>> >
>>> > Don't know how helpful that is but it's a start.
>>> >
>>> > If anyone is interested in throwing their hat in the ring (or
>>> > recommending
>>> > someone) please let me know asap.
>>> >
>>> > P.
>>> >
>>> > ________________________________
>>> > From: John Robert Hudson <j.r.hudson at virginmedia.com>
>>> > To: Paul Colley <pchcolley at yahoo.co.uk>
>>> > Cc: BradLUG <bradford at mailman.lug.org.uk>
>>> > Sent: Tuesday, 9 April 2013, 21:19
>>> > Subject: Re: [Bradford] Fw: Website Construction
>>> >
>>> > Some thoughts.
>>> >
>>> > Do they want help:
>>> > to obtain a domain name
>>> > to host a website
>>> > to set up their own website
>>> > to create a website from scratch
>>> > to create a website using templates
>>> > to create a website using a content management system
>>> > primarily to provide information
>>> > primarily to interact with people, whether their own volunteers or the
>>> > wider community?
>>> >
>>> > John
>>> > --
>>> > On Tue, 2013-04-09 at 20:48 +0100, Paul Colley wrote:
>>> >> Hi all
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> Received the following enquiry from a colleague today.
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> I’m involved with a local Society that is looking to create a new
>>> >> website and domain. Can you recommend any people that might be able
>>> >> to undertake this – we are looking to get quotes?
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> Said I certainly can recommend or signpost - but that it will be
>>> >> difficult to quote without further info.
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> Anybody potentially interested? Anyone willing to suggest basic
>>> >> questions that would need to be answered in order to come up with an
>>> >> offer?
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> Paul
>>> >>
>>> >>
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