What's are some Super Easy Blog Platforms for my girlfriend?
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Jekyll
It may seem intimidating at first, but if you do the initial setup (theme etc) for her, then it's as simple as her writing posts in Markdown and typing one line in Terminal. Super lean (production site is static) plus you can host it for free on GH Pages.
If you are determined to bloat up your box with a full CMS, at the very least stay away from WordPress.
Obtvse is pretty cool, although a bit on the overly-simple side. AnchorCMS looks neat, but I've never played with it (this thread is the first I've heard of it).
It may seem intimidating at first, but if you do the initial setup (theme etc) for her, then it's as simple as her writing posts in Markdown and typing one line in Terminal. Super lean (production site is static) plus you can host it for free on GH Pages.
If you are determined to bloat up your box with a full CMS, at the very least stay away from WordPress.
Obtvse is pretty cool, although a bit on the overly-simple side. AnchorCMS looks neat, but I've never played with it (this thread is the first I've heard of it).
I think blogger is pretty piss to use. Not much really to fuck up there. Or if you hate her, Joomla.
Just use wordpress. No point in diving into anything further than that until she's got a little experience under her belt.
Alright, so I looked into AnchorCMS, and am completely blown away by how minimalistic it is. I've fallen in love with this shit. Nice find EMP. Not even a huge learning curve, if you've used wordpress, then go to anchorcms, you'll ask yourself, wtf, why does it seem so simple versus wordpress, lol. I'm a big fan of not being on the big CMSes, cause I see wordpress as being a footprint in the future, I'm just paranoid like that. Definitely worth a try to give to less techy family members or simple projects.
A footprint for what? Too many huge legit sites use WordPress for it to be penalized. I think a footprint could come from any CMS, even basic HTML/CSS could be considered an indicator too if you've got 500 sites using the exact same configuration. I think if you're running a legit site on WordPress then you have nothing to fear. If you're running 100s or 1000s of identical crap sites then it doesn't matter what you use, G will see through you unless you endeavor to make each one different.
I'm surprised no one has suggested Tumblr. That was the first one that came to my mind at least.
I agree of course that Wordpress is nice and easy. Everyone loves Wordpress, but unless she knows how to market it somehow she'll be writing to no one but herself. At least on Tumblr she has a hope of building some sort of following and having people read her stuff.
I suppose Tumblr isn't technically a blog though, is it? I don't actually know what you would call it. But if you just want the more traditional type of blog then fuck yeah Wordpress.
Edit: Oh... heh... blog... platforms...
just shoot me in the fucking face
I agree of course that Wordpress is nice and easy. Everyone loves Wordpress, but unless she knows how to market it somehow she'll be writing to no one but herself. At least on Tumblr she has a hope of building some sort of following and having people read her stuff.
I suppose Tumblr isn't technically a blog though, is it? I don't actually know what you would call it. But if you just want the more traditional type of blog then fuck yeah Wordpress.
Edit: Oh... heh... blog... platforms...
just shoot me in the fucking face
For hackers... I'm just paranoid... Same reason PCs have more viruses than Mac, cause there are more PC users.
I love the Tumblr blog set up, and their built in text editor for the themes is cool too. I have a couple domains where I point the a-name record there, awesome for a couple pumper sites cause free hosting plus the idea of hooking it up to an aged domain (or not).
Ahhh, that kind of "footprint". Usually when I hear that word it's in reference to the Google and the SERPs. Yeah, it already is a huge target for hackers. There are lots of things you can do to mitigate that though.
LOL! Simplicity in Technology. What a Novel Concept!! Who would've thunk it when the geeks always stunk it..