2015-12-09 (Wednesday)

@edwardhorsford @dzuelke Although if you have > 1 static sites, and don’t want them to sleep for 6 hrs a day, shared hosting is cheaper.

@edwardhorsford @dzuelke @heroku Yup, that’s it. Adding git or any command line stuff adds a lot more to learn and then forget :)

@edwardhorsford @dzuelke On the plus side, they have no preconceptions about other ways to make a website live. So nothing to unlearn!

@edwardhorsford @dzuelke It’s more that I’m trying to teach basics of HTML, CSS and JS in very little time - so simpler the better.

@dzuelke @edwardhorsford Got it working, thanks for the help. Not too tricky - I may try this out with the students tomorrow!

@dzuelke @edwardhorsford Ah thanks. The Dropbox Sync page assumes you already know what files your app should contain :)

@dzuelke @edwardhorsford How did you set the buildpack to use? Setting a BUILDPACK_URL config var is deprecated and I’m trying to avoid cli.

@derivadow @revdancatt @thatnatbuckley Dropbox is sounding good. Wondering if there’s a benefit to using devcenter.heroku.com/articles/dropb…

@Zoonie @revdancatt (Where by ‘feature’ I mean ‘complicated extra thing that a small %ege will use’.)

@Zoonie @revdancatt Yeah, except every person wants one extra feature, and adding features makes services look like better value. But yes.

@Zoonie @revdancatt But it’d be nice, given larger numbers online, if there was a relatively non-complicated way for others.

@Zoonie @revdancatt I think the kinds of people who would do this stuff in 90s are still OK with learning complicated stuff.

@revdancatt @thatnatbuckley If this was more ‘The best way to make your permanent online home’ it’d be worth spending more time+money on it.

@revdancatt @thatnatbuckley It’s partly complicated by wanting something quick, cheap/free, and not necessarily permanent.

@luke_duke @tomp I live in a dream world! :)

@luke_duke @tomp Yeah, although I’d like it to be something they can do again more independently, so no template. Just their static files.

@thatnatbuckley I’m going to try and find time to write up some of the options people have suggested. Hopefully some/one will be OK…

@luke_duke @tomp I’ll have a look. I hope to be proved wrong, because I’m frustrated with how complicated making a very simple website is.

@luke_duke @tomp I mean, some don’t entirely understand where their files and folders are on their computer.

@luke_duke @tomp I think you underestimate how complex git is, web UI or no, to people who are entirely new to making web pages.

@hugovk Heroku’s Dropbox sync sounds like a promising way of doing this… I’m going to investigate later.

@hugovk But still, it’s the tip of a very complicated iceberg that I’d prefer not to mention at this point!

@andrewn Interesting, I’ll have a look, thanks. Similarly, Heroku’s Dropbox sync looks promising.

@andrewn Yeah, it’s a shame. And even if I can get them set up, I’d feel I was leaving them with something they wouldn’t know how to fix.

@andrewn Yeah, nice, but I’m not going to start teaching people whose brains are already over-full of HTML, CSS, JS about npm.

@cityofsound Yes, so good. I don’t often think “This looks too good for telly.”