I recently went through the pain of setting up a simple static website for a math professor[1], and it really is depressing how polarized the options are considering you want the site to be easily editable by the party in question once it's all set up. Either monolithic Wordpress-like engines that are really hard to bend to your will for first-timers (even me, a developer), or FTPing static files to some shady host provider.
The solution I settled on was hosting everything on github.io[2] and teaching the person how to use the GitHub interface sort of like a file browser/editor so they can tweak little things without having to e-mail me.
Anyway my approach seemed to work out, but I would for sure have given this a try first if I knew about it. Congrats on getting it out there!
Yup that came up but it looked a little too complex to use for the person for whom I made the website. He can handle basic HTML tweaks but isn't really a techie. He also wanted to be able to update his website from any machine, including his iPad.
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Bah every time I have a good idea it's taken :)
I recently went through the pain of setting up a simple static website for a math professor[1], and it really is depressing how polarized the options are considering you want the site to be easily editable by the party in question once it's all set up. Either monolithic Wordpress-like engines that are really hard to bend to your will for first-timers (even me, a developer), or FTPing static files to some shady host provider.
The solution I settled on was hosting everything on github.io[2] and teaching the person how to use the GitHub interface sort of like a file browser/editor so they can tweak little things without having to e-mail me.
Anyway my approach seemed to work out, but I would for sure have given this a try first if I knew about it. Congrats on getting it out there!
1. http://piotrkrasonmath.com/ 2. https://github.com/dougkoellmer/piotrkrasonmath.github.io
Just curious, did you check out Lektor? I haven't experience with it, but I think it is designed just for that kind of scenarios.
Yup that came up but it looked a little too complex to use for the person for whom I made the website. He can handle basic HTML tweaks but isn't really a techie. He also wanted to be able to update his website from any machine, including his iPad.