Re: Cold Intermediate Programmer trying to modularize website...

On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 5:55 PM, tamouse mailing lists <tamouse.lists@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 12:42 PM, Barry Smith <scs.bns001@gmail.com> wrote: >> I know less about WordPress than I do about Joomla, but I did notice a >> template site that I cannot find any support for (cool templates) which >> supports both Joomla and WordPress, as well as HTML/CSS. >> I know that there are lists of buttons which I was going to rely on PHP to >> handle. >> The problem with WordPress and Joomla is that the current webhost will allow >> PHP, but will not allow MySQL. >> >> :) I know... time to move the site to a FREE php/MySQL host. I already have >> one in mind, but the throughput from the host at a major ISP (Charter) is >> hard to leave... since the client has been paying for that webhost for over >> 20 years. A GoDaddy hosted site I might be able to talk her into, in a >> pinch... but she is a firm believer in the idea that you pay for quality. It >> might be very hard convincing her to consider another webhost that isn't >> local, and Charter is a local (non-toll-free) phone call away. >> >> Thank you for the suggestion. A WordPress site might actually be the >> solution... if she is willing to leave Charter. >> -- >> Barry Smith >> c 704-497-4217 >> e scs.bns001@gmail.com >> >> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 11:22 PM, tamouse mailing lists >> <tamouse.lists@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Have you considered setting this up in wordpress? >>> >>> >> > > I'm not familiar with Charter as an ISP, or what they offer. I'm > guessing they are on a consumer web hosting plan? Something to look at > might be if there's a low-tier commercial hosting plan with Charter, > that might be better than moving off to GoDaddy (which I have very > personally strong averse feelings to, so take that into account). > > Also, not trying to talk you out of a job or anything like that, but > there are also things like wordpress.com and other public blogging > platforms. > > A completely left-field thing now is also github pages. You can't run > PHP, but wow can you make a great backbone.js app there. > > Anyway, just tossing out ideas. They're free, so you can ignore them. :) Oh, another thing. AWS RDS (MySQL in the cloud) is possible, but it's horribly expensive to run for a low-access site.