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Stefan Bohacek

Would anyone be interested in contributing to this interactive guide + WYSIWIG editor that lets you make simple web pages and shows you how to host them for free?

simplepagebuilder.app

More about the project: stefanbohacek.com/project/a-si

Repo + open issues: github.com/stefanbohacek/simpl

#indieweb #websites #PersonalWebsites #WYSIWYG #OpenSource #contributors

11 comments
Stefan Bohacek

Honestly, this might work better as a service that also lets you host the pages you make. Something like the recently discontinued hatch.one.

Alas, I am not too keen on running such a service myself, and, more importantly, moderating it. And I would most definitely want to keep it free, at least for most users. Still, definitely interested in hearing thoughts on this topic!

Henrik Schönemann

@stefan I would volunteer to be part of a moderation team :)

And could contribute via Github

Stefan Bohacek

@lavaeolus Thank you, I'll definitely keep this in mind!

Alan Levine

@stefan How about surge.sh You just push files from your local machine. I see ones I created back in 2015 cogdogblog.com/2015/05/with-su if it goes away you still have all your source files.

Stefan Bohacek

@cogdog Very interesting, definitely saving this! Thank you!

Jake

@stefan thats so cool! I made a quick little tutorial on how to make your own gallery on neocities, idk if that can help? jakechirak.com/howto/makeyouro

yianiris

If the simple page incorporates active scripts to display content, definitely not!

When you say free is that free as in beer or free as in freedom? Does that free require phone verification, therefore legal ID (like github/MS gitlab and other proprietary servers?) No Thank you!

There are plenty of #FOSS tools converting text, rtf, md into html, plain #html that is no js crap

The offensive against people and foss comes wrapped with aesthetic "modern" gadgetry as popular necessity

@stefan

Stefan Bohacek

@yianiris All good points/questions!

This tool only lets you create the page and suggests a few options for hosting the exported files, specifically glitch.com and neocities.org, neither of which, I believe, have such requirements.

The exported page doesn't rely on JavaScript, unlike the page builder itself, which, considering it is aimed at non-coders, would be a bit harder to pull off without JS.

yianiris

Neocities is great, anyone can sign up and control web content through a web-ui, not the greatest but works.
One can simply publish html and optionally use some .css theme template.

Glitch is a very different commercial host that you can not even visit unless you allow a whole bunch of commercial scripts.

Google is free, amazon, blogspot, even wordpress com/org , twitch, facebook, free but NOT FREE?

#Disroot is free as in freedom, using foss for their servers community supported

@stefan

Neocities is great, anyone can sign up and control web content through a web-ui, not the greatest but works.
One can simply publish html and optionally use some .css theme template.

Glitch is a very different commercial host that you can not even visit unless you allow a whole bunch of commercial scripts.

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