Download the website using this tool https://website-downloader.onrender.com/ and start editing. You can use free hosting services like Netlify or Vercel to host the site. The website doesn't have a search presence, so even if you re-build, it doesn't hurt.
Ask HN: 87yr old yoga teacher asked me to manage her website. Where to start?
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Re: Ask HN: 87yr old yoga teacher asked me to manage her website. Where to start?
#12If it is just a few pages and mostly static, I would rebuild using a CMS like WordPress for future maintenance or at the minimum, a brand new static site and host on a $5 digitalocean droplet or netlify/cloudflare pages.
Current setup is too old to try and work with and you may save time doing from scratch.
Re: Ask HN: 87yr old yoga teacher asked me to manage her website. Where to start?
#13If the laptop was using FTP to get the file uploaded, then you already have a directory of the static HTML for the site somewhere on the laptop. So no need to get fancy - find and copy that directory somewhere else and you have the site. Put it up on Github pages, S3, or really any host you want and you are free of the old laptop.
You will lose the editing in Dreamweaver, but you will have the content. And there are less than a dozen pages on that, without much in common with each other aside from a menu and the background, so you could edit the site by hand fairly easily, or you could put it into a modern tool in less than an hour and modernize the design at the same time (if she wants that.)
Re: Ask HN: 87yr old yoga teacher asked me to manage her website. Where to start?
#14Download the website using this tool https://website-downloader.onrender.com/ and start editing. You can use free hosting services like Netlify or Vercel to host the site. The website doesn't have a search presence, so even if you re-build, it doesn't hurt.
Let me know if you need assistance
Re: Ask HN: 87yr old yoga teacher asked me to manage her website. Where to start?
#15At the risk of sounding rude, you could start by politely declining the request.
It's certainly an option. :)
Re: Ask HN: 87yr old yoga teacher asked me to manage her website. Where to start?
#16Website isn't loading, we are all probably driving up her views way beyond normal. Hope she doesn't have traffic-based pricing.
Webhero's cheapest plan has 100GB limit and the rest are unlimited. Given the homepage is 100KB, it would take about one million views to possibly exceed a plan.
Re: Ask HN: 87yr old yoga teacher asked me to manage her website. Where to start?
#17Rebuild the site with wix.com (or other tools)
It looks completely static and after the initial setup it is extremely easy to maintain/add to
Re: Ask HN: 87yr old yoga teacher asked me to manage her website. Where to start?
#18CTRL+S saves each page even if you lose FTP access. Markup is great. Websites don't need to be 100MB applications to display some photos and four paragraphs.
[edit] wow that signature made me do a double take
Re: Ask HN: 87yr old yoga teacher asked me to manage her website. Where to start?
#19Please telling me your not doing this for free in your spare time
Re: Ask HN: 87yr old yoga teacher asked me to manage her website. Where to start?
#20At the risk of sounding rude, you could start by politely declining the request. It's certainly an option. :)
Seriously, if you have no problem doing this in your spare time for free, then your time isn’t really that valuable.