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Re: Ask HN: As a busy founder, how to address a website best?

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Post by ishener » Sun, Sep 28, 2014, 6:26 PM UTC

neltnerb wrote: post #4

Jsarokin wrote: post #2

I'd say your best bet is to check out some of the high quality themes at http://themeforest.net -- if you don't want to deal with html / css the wordpress themes are really easy to setup and look amazing.

Thanks so much for the advice! My primary concern with Wordpress is that it has been around long enough that it could actually be harder to set up because of out of date tutorials, and that I've been told it's got a lot of security issues. I also have a vague horrible memory of trying to install it in 2006 or 2007 and it being a disaster to customize... but I don't want to hold that against it in 2014. On the other h…

If you are worried about installing, why not use https://wordpress.com/? Hell, even techcrunch are using it!

Re: Ask HN: As a busy founder, how to address a website best?

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Post by neltnerb » Sun, Sep 28, 2014, 6:29 PM UTC

lauriswtf wrote: post #9

Have you seen Squarespace[0]? It is one of the quickest ways to launch a website. It even lets you register a domain, so it is all-inclusive. [0] - http://www.squarespace.com/

I haven't, but it looks great! With all these great suggestions, now I'm overwhelmed with all the apparently wonderful choices =)

Thank you so much!

Re: Ask HN: As a busy founder, how to address a website best?

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Post by mrben » Sun, Sep 28, 2014, 6:35 PM UTC

Not used it myself but I've seen a few nice sites around that are built with https://www.strikingly.com/.

Downside is you're not hosting it yourself.

Upside is you're not hosting it yourself.

Re: Ask HN: As a busy founder, how to address a website best?

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Post by falsestprophet » Sun, Sep 28, 2014, 6:40 PM UTC

DNS is the best way to address a website. It translates human-friendly computer hostnames into IP addresses.

Re: Ask HN: As a busy founder, how to address a website best?

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Post by neltnerb » Sun, Sep 28, 2014, 6:41 PM UTC

Anyone have experience with the providers Wordpress lists as their recommended hosting services?

https://wordpress.org/hosting/

Wordpress.com itself looks maybe a bit restrictive in theming, although that can be a good thing too of course.

Re: Ask HN: As a busy founder, how to address a website best?

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Post by samsnelling » Sun, Sep 28, 2014, 6:45 PM UTC

neltnerb wrote: post #15

Anyone have experience with the providers Wordpress lists as their recommended hosting services? https://wordpress.org/hosting/ Wordpress.com itself looks maybe a bit restrictive in theming, although that can be a good thing too of course.

I 1000% endorse Cloudways. It allows you to spin up a managed high performance Wordpress Stack in minutes on DigitalOcean or AWS.

For most small businesses, I'd say a 1GB or 2GB server should be fine, so $15 or $30 per month.

I only host my clients on Cloudways, just because it takes so much hassle out of the situation, and is much cheaper than using something like a Flywheel or a WPEngine.

Edit: Cloudways sets up Varnish, Nginx, Apache, Memcache. I then manually set up a CDN (MaxCDN being my preference), and use CloudFlare for DNS. I usually use NYC DigitalOcean. Love the speed. Oh, and Cloudways has patched (for ShellShock) all of my clients servers for me :)

Re: Ask HN: As a busy founder, how to address a website best?

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Post by amjd » Sun, Sep 28, 2014, 6:48 PM UTC

neltnerb wrote: post #7

soneca wrote: post #3

Find a suitable free template here: http://startbootstrap.com/template-categories/all/ Find some suitable stock photo here: http://www.imcreator.com/free Upload it here: https://pages.github.com Professional looking website in a couple of hours.

Oh, thank god. These look great. This one looks amazing: http://themeforest.net/item/enfold-responsive-multipurpose-t... is this kind of drag and drop page layout common nowadays? I feel like I'm going to have to buy you all a beer. I've got my own webserver, so my inclination is to try to install it there because it's there... it sounds like it might be much more sane to host it elsewhere though? Is there a benefit…

If you already have a web server, it might be a better idea to host your website there. Github Pages is only for static websites, so you can't use it to host websites using WordPress et al. (Since you linked to a WP theme.)

Re: Ask HN: As a busy founder, how to address a website best?

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Post by sk55 » Sun, Sep 28, 2014, 6:50 PM UTC

https://wrapbootstrap.com/ is a quick way to make whatever you made in bootstrap look nice

Re: Ask HN: As a busy founder, how to address a website best?

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Post by madoublet » Sun, Sep 28, 2014, 6:51 PM UTC

I am building a product called Triangulate (http://triangulate.io) that would work for you. It is an open-source site builder (or CMS) built in AngularJS. I provide a hosted service, plus, the app is completely open source so it can grow with your business.

Re: Ask HN: As a busy founder, how to address a website best?

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Post by ConnorRoberts » Sun, Sep 28, 2014, 7:05 PM UTC

madoublet wrote: post #19

I am building a product called Triangulate ( http://triangulate.io ) that would work for you. It is an open-source site builder (or CMS) built in AngularJS. I provide a hosted service, plus, the app is completely open source so it can grow with your business.

If you didn't know, the "Get Started" button is broken on (some?) mobiles :)

http://i.imgur.com/4GUVVcT.png (HTC One M7, Chrome)