simple website software - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: Simon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: May 22, 2016, 07:40:32 am
content: People keep telling me not to use wordpress and I do find it tedious setting one up as it means I have to run around converting a blog setup to a static website. I have need to just put a few pages up, is there anything else out there that is better suited ?

author: Simon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: May 22, 2016, 08:05:27 am
content: Security concerns, and like i said I'd rather have something even simpler. It's almost like some good old HTML pages might do it for me

author: amspire
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 22, 2016, 08:10:07 am
content: Wordpress is the biggest target on the Internet, so it should only be used if you are going to keep it fully updated. 80% of the Wordpress sites I have been involved with have been hacked at some point and in all cases, the site owner was not doing regular updates. Do you want to login to Wordpress almost every day to check your site?Using a site actually hosted by Wordpress.com is probably a safe way to go for a small site.If you only need a few pages and you are not updating them regularly, you are better off avoiding any content management system.A lot of people use Adobe Muse. There are a number of other commercial programs in the $30-$100 range that have a easy interface and then generate the HTML and CSS files for a static web site. May be some free ones too. A key thing to look for is a program that automatically uses CSS and javascript to make a single site that is browser and mobile phone compatible. You can google "static website generators".

author: Simon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: May 22, 2016, 08:12:15 am
content: I beleive wordpress now automatically updates itself, probably because of this long history of hacks. I have a number of wordpress websites and now keep getting emails to say that they have updated themselves.

author: hammy
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: May 22, 2016, 08:24:12 am
content: I had the same situation a few months ago creating my new website, Wordpress is not an option for me.Now I usewysiwygwebbuilder. There are several extensions to pimp the functionality, one of these is "PHP-Blog". This extension is better than the included blog object, if you want to run a feature rich blog.(If you run Linux/Mac you can tryquickandeasywebbuilder. As far as I know it is from the same guy, just the features are a little bit lesser.)There is a forum for this Software, really helpful sometimes.Cheershammy

author: Jeroen3
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 22, 2016, 11:31:26 am
content: A long time ago I installedCMS Made Simpleon my website.They are a few major revision ahead now. And it looks like it's still free.

author: IanJ
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: May 22, 2016, 01:00:38 pm
content: I use Joomla, it's free.....and great for a simple site.....right up to something quite extensive.https://www.joomla.org/Ian.

author: Simon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: May 22, 2016, 01:57:14 pm
content: I think it is joomla i used before wordpress so I don't know if it has improved but it was a night mare, the sort of thing that is too powerful.