So You Want A Personal Website?
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What do you want to do with you website?
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Single PurposeWeb Sites
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• One purpose idea.
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WhatDayOfTheWeek.com
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DoWebsitesNeedToLookExactlyTheSameInEveryBrowser.com
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• Basic knowledge of HTML (You could use OpenOffice.org)
• Almost any free web host.
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Journal(or Blog)
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• Content that is updated on a regular bases
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kottke.org
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• WordPress (http://wordpress.org)
• Movable Type (http://movabletype.org)
• PyBlosxom (http://pyblosxom.sf.net)
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• Requires support for a dynamic language
• Probably a database
• Large communities for support and extensions
• Well documented
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But
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Articles or Documents
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• Technical documents
• White papers
• Searching is incredibly important.
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Wikipedia
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Design Explorations by 37signals
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Document
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Wiki’s
• MediaWiki (http://mediawiki.org)
• Used by Wikipedia
• DokuWiki (http://dokuwiki.org)
• Flat files (no dependency on a database)
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• Plone (http://plone.org)
• Alfresco (http://www.alfresco.com)
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Should I host my website with Home,
Shared, etc.
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Home Server
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• You will already have a computer and a broadband internet connection.
• Websites with little “media” have minimal bandwidth requirements.
Advantages
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Bell Sucks
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Rogers Sucks
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ISP in Canada Suck
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• Bell and Rogers downtime is always an issue
• Bell and Rogers don’t allow static IP addresses.
• You will have to setup a Dynamic DNS
• Or if your on Bell you could use a CNAME
Disadvantages
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Free Dynamic DNS Providers
• FreeDNS (http://freedns.afraid.org)
• DynDNS (http://dyndns.com)
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Shared Web Hosting
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• Minimal cost
• Administration is someone else's job
• But do daily/weekly/monthly backups just in case
• T1, Data centre, etc.
Advantages
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• If the company goes bankrupt how will you get your data?
• People on the internet are sketchy.
Disadvantages