2015/Brighton/getting-started

Getting Started was a session at IndieWebCamp Brighton 2015.

Notes archived from: https://etherpad.indieweb.org/getting-started

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Participants

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Notes

Hosting

• Heroku $7/mo
• Github Pages - free, limited functionality
• Surge.sh
• Webfraction
• Indie Hosters - sysadmin for the helpz
• Linode
• Dream host
• Digital Ocean - maybe more complex to use - $5/mo
• in case you need BIG machines in EU area, hetzner.de, OVH

see also: web_hosting

Software

• Static site generators
  • Jekyll
  • https://staticsitegenerators.net/
• on-the-fly parsers from static content
  • getgrav.org - Static on the fly parser (has skeletons and pre-built examples, php5.3+ only, no need for database, markdown + yaml files as data )
• File-based CMSs
  • Kirby (getkirby.com, one time fee)
• Dynamic CMSs ( requires database ) -> http://indiewebcamp.com/wordpress
  • WordPress (open source, mysql only )
  • Drupal (open source)
  • Joomla (open source) (D'oh)
  • Craft CMS
  • Perch (http://grabaperch.com/ £50 one time license payment)
  • Known (withknown.com $10 a month, $100 a year)