Nice topic. I would also add https with CloudFlare and comments with Disqus, see http://g14n.info/2014/08/moving-from-blogger-to-github-pages... For details.
Other nice thing to have is social integration but I did not added it yet.
Make This in an Hour
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#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can't you use GitHub pages for multiple sites? Or create multiple GitHub accounts?
You can make a github page for each project, but it walks me through a process that forces me to use their template and my own markdown, not able to actually upload html/css etc. I suppose I could create another github account though, but not sure if I want to do that every one-off site I want to put up.
As far as I know you can create multiple sites on one account. I'm not sure what you mean about GitHub forcing you to use a template. For my homepage, I set up a new Git repo and used a Gulp module to deploy to it without any issues.
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#53err, or you could just upload index.html to any shared hosting in 5 minutes? The trouble of making a site (at least for people who can edit html directly, as in this example) is not about how to do it, but about high expectations and standards that we impose on ourselves... I'm guilty of this mysqlf, my site hasn't been updated in like 5 years, and I've built dozens of sites for others in that period...
The OP's one-hour recipe is strictly better for a pure static site, because it's substantially cheaper than shared hosting (which is $5/mo, github pages is free). Note that shared hosting provides persistent compute/store capability, which this project doesn't need.
> The OP's one-hour recipe is strictly better for a pure static site
But it's still a lot worse than the simple web page builders (using a web-based UI) that have been around for 15 years or so. Why not just use about.me or some similar modern service?
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#54No doubt this post is good for some one who is beginning to build a website. But this post expects people to do their pages in html. github supports simple markdown pages to be hosted as html.
markdown is clear and easy to write posts. If this post extends to teach hosting markdown pages, one can use the website built using this tool to make his own blog. This might help people more than teaching just to create a website.!
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#55I love how far the world has come over the past few decades. It is amazing how quickly you can get content up and online, and available to people. Great post, I really think it highlights the power of technology and the appeal that it offers.
To be fair, this didn't contain anything that wasn't possible in 10 or even 20 years ago in one hour. The only thing that wasn't so straightforward 20 years ago (1995) was finding hosting for your page.
Not sure about 20 years ago, but 10-15 years ago finding hosting was pretty easy. You probably got some free from your dialup ISP (at least here in the UK). And everything else was substantially easier, because unstyled HTML was still considered perfectly OK. It's a shame the need for rounded corners and less legible colourschemes has pretty much killed the idea of the web as a read-write medium for the masses.
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can't you use GitHub pages for multiple sites? Or create multiple GitHub accounts?
You can make a github page for each project, but it walks me through a process that forces me to use their template and my own markdown, not able to actually upload html/css etc. I suppose I could create another github account though, but not sure if I want to do that every one-off site I want to put up.
You can just create a GitHub organization and create a Pages repo for that org.
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#57I feel like with Godaddy hosting I could make a website in like 2 minutes by pressing a few buttons.
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#58with the audience showing up on this thread. I was going to use ask:HN ,But I'm almost finished with an ebook/prnt for ' kid's with cancer' charities, only will have 2 books on the site / cart checkout / needed .. if any one has advise of a ..simple 1 page ..Woo..theme or similar..it would be helpful
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#59I really like that idea and I understand that this is aimed specifically at the friend mentioned on the site so it takes their technical ability into account but I think for most people who are struggling with basic tasks like these instructions like > Create a directory to hold your website and cd into it. would already confuse them. Now that you already got that nice domain I think I'd be great to have a guide like…
At what point do you define a beginner then?
I struggle with this a lot when writing teaching materials. It feels like teaching somebody how to create a directory should not be a part of teaching somebody how to make a website. Beginner or not. You should already know how to use a computer.
It's like when I'm trying to teach people how to do X and Y with JavaScript and they get confused beyond hope when they try to run `grunt watch` and it fails because they haven't created a file yet. Like, just wait, you'll create the file in the next step. It's not the end of the world if something throws an error. You're supposed to be a programmer, jeezus.
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#60I really like that idea and I understand that this is aimed specifically at the friend mentioned on the site so it takes their technical ability into account but I think for most people who are struggling with basic tasks like these instructions like > Create a directory to hold your website and cd into it. would already confuse them. Now that you already got that nice domain I think I'd be great to have a guide like…
At what point do you define a beginner then? I struggle with this a lot when writing teaching materials. It feels like teaching somebody how to create a directory should not be a part of teaching somebody how to make a website. Beginner or not. You should already know how to use a computer. It's like when I'm trying to teach people how to do X and Y with JavaScript and they get confused beyond hope when they try to r…
You're blaming the students. Is it a possibility that the fault lies with you?