[nfbcs] Need someone to take my website and rebuild it on a different host

[Jim Barbour]

Hey April,

So far, folks have been concentrating on answering your technical question -- which seems to be what the modern components of a web site today.

However, I think you're really asking something else and you need to clarify it a bit more.

Can you say more about the problems you're trying to avoid by moving away from Google?  So far I think the only thing I've read is that Google doesn't give me enough control over how I can format/publish your content

Everything else has been about how other solutions confuse you. Before talking a lot more about other solutions, it would be very useful to know what you are comfortable with today.

   * An apache server with an htdocs directory
   * A full on content management system like droople.
   * A simplified content management site like squarespace (probably not, since I think this is why you're leaving Google)

Wordpress falls between squarespace and droople in terms of striking a balance between being easy to use and flexible.

I think nailing down why you're leaving Google, and perhaps a bit more about what you are hoping to do with your new platform will help us guide you better.

Take Care,

Jim

On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 09:24:31AM -0500, April Brown wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
>      I am missing being able to design my own website.  Currently, it is on Google, and I need it moved from there.  
> 
>      I have the text saved off, and and working on adding the XHTML tags.
> 
>      I really haven't kept up with design in the last five years.  The terms people throw around now confuse me.  When I did design outside of Google, the web host was the host, and you didn't have a host and something else.  I'm confused.  When i login to Google Pages to work on my sites, it's all in one place.  
> 
>       My friend who taught me web design a decade ago, keeps saying I can host it on Wordpress.  When I go to the Wordpress site, it says it connects with a host.  That's rather contradictory.  I didn't like Wordpress's blog, and left it years ago, because it became too confusing, and was not viewable, or work with able for people with low vision.
> 
>      I just don't have the time to do it myself, and my writing too.  
> 
>      Do you have any recommendations?  
> 
> 
> April Brown
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