Sandvox, RapidWeaver, iWeb, and true WYSIWYG editing

[Zoidberg]

Robert M wrote:
Thank you for starting what has turned into a great thread.

Kudos to everyone who has been involved in this thread! This is one of the reasons I became active in the forum again. I missed it tremendously!

Double ditto. I'm learning a lot, exploring new options. Still haven't found one that's quite right for me, but I don't doubt I will b'f June 2012.

[M A V I C]

Zoidberg wrote: I list RFQs in the order they're due. I'll know about some of them sooner than others; for instance, I have several due in July listed. I just found out about one due next week. In a blog setting, posts are made according to when they're posted. Not needing to blog, I just want a single page, like an info page, that I can do the listing quickly. Single page.

I actually used to do the coding in TextEdit (really) and FTP it. It's not complicated, and I could go back to that if I had to.

Of course, I want more than that, and the ability to easily keep reverse order archives. (See this page for an example).

FWIW, there's probably a half dozen ways to do that with WP, more easily than you're having to. And blog posts can get sorted in any number of ways. In WordPress, you can change the sort order a few different ways. You can also modify the date that they go live so they're sorted in the specific order you want. Or you can use Pages (instead of Posts) and manually enter the sort order. Or you can put them all on one page. Or you can...

Zoidberg wrote:
[quote=Seacrest]
What's the resistance to adding Wordpress or another OS CMS to this mix?

Wordpress and Concrete5 are literally 5 minute installs on a localhost (with MAMP installed).

All that stuff you describe above, to me, does not seem trivial.
I have written full backend systems in the past that did much of what you wish, but I avoid writing that kind of code today, as much of it can be done fairly easily in one of the OS CMS packages. If not in the core, then with the numerous plug-ins/extensions out there.

Agreed, but you see that text I bolded? At a glance, I don't get that. I can figure it all out pretty quickly and thinking about it for a few minutes, but with iWeb and MobileMe, I don't have to. And that's what sold the setup to about half a dozen clients -- who, admittedly, aren't using the setup for their company web hosting, but for personal pages (like family sites, photo blogs, club & sports team info, etc.).
I honestly don't know why Seacrest said that. Most web hosts have "one click" installs or similar and you can be up and running in about 15 seconds, just having to click "install" and maybe a couple other things. There's also WordPress hosts out there where all you do is sign up for an account and the rest is handled for you. Eg http://allsmbsites.com

[Seacrest]

M A V I C wrote:
I honestly don't know why Seacrest said that. Most web hosts have "one click" installs or similar and you can be up and running in about 15 seconds, just having to click "install" and maybe a couple other things. There's also WordPress hosts out there where all you do is sign up for an account and the rest is handled for you. Eg http://allsmbsites.com

I said it because it's free and easy to try these on your localhost without signing up for hosting first.

Doesn't make your method invalid, which I also recommended elsewhere.

[anonymouse1]

Zoid-

What don't you like about squarespace--it looked appealing to me.

BTW, I actually paid good money for RapidWeaver, and it was a total waste--you've got to spend hundreds of dollars more on add-ins to do anything useful, unless you just go with their templates. Sounds like Sandvox is better.

I also tried Flux 2.x, and liked it, but it wasn't as user-friendly as I'd like. 3.0 is supposed to be better. Worth trying, IMHO.

[M A V I C]

Seacrest wrote:
[quote=M A V I C]
I honestly don't know why Seacrest said that. Most web hosts have "one click" installs or similar and you can be up and running in about 15 seconds, just having to click "install" and maybe a couple other things. There's also WordPress hosts out there where all you do is sign up for an account and the rest is handled for you. Eg http://allsmbsites.com

I said it because it's free and easy to try these on your localhost without signing up for hosting first.

Doesn't make your method invalid, which I also recommended elsewhere.
I see. Well, I don't consider it all that easy to deal with, especially for beginners. If they're already using RW... they already have a host.