Do you self-host it using FOSS tools? Use Wordpress? Design your own using PHP frameworks such as laravel? Just curious what those that do it use?
Do you self-host it using FOSS tools? Use Wordpress? Design your own using PHP frameworks such as laravel? Just curious what those that do it use?
If I was to create a blog today, I would use a static page generator and host it on GitHub or GitLab. I would spend my time on creating original content instead of tweaking the infrastructure.
I eventually got tired of maintaining the infrastructure on my personal website, so I eventually moved it to google sites as I didn’t really need a lot of dynamically generated content as it basically just serves my resume with redacted personal info. So I’ve just tacked on my writings to it. Google sites actually isn’t bad as a WYSIWYG editor for blog posts. But there isn’t any good functionality for indexing, navigation or allowing comments. I don’t have a lot of writings so I just manually update the top level page with links to all my writings and embed Disqus at the bottom of my posts for people if they want to leave comments.
I used Google Sites a long time ago and I’m a bit surprised it still exists (with Google killing products all the time). How is it with revision history, etc. Is it easy to download the contents in a reasonable format? One advantage of GitHub/GitLab is that you have all your archive in source control all the time.
It’s fine for revisions history. I can see every published changed I’ve made going back 2 years when I created the site. You can actually use Takeout to get the raw css and html of the site if you wanted to as well. Although I wouldn’t consider it a user friendly process to do so. No real friendly way to export individual pages either though, so I couldn’t easily send my post to like a PDF for instance unless I printed it to PDF through the browser print functionality.
I liked it though because it gave me an easy way to create a consistent looking website that automatically sizes itself for any device without need for any hassle on my part.
Thanks for the explanation. If it works, don’t fix it :)