[Rhodes22-list] Website Development

[Peter Nyberg]

I’m sitting on my boat in Coecles Harbor reviewing this thread, and it occurs to me that we’ve come to a fork in the road.  

The question we need to answer first, is what kind of website are we going to try to develop? Simple static text and pictures, like now (but better looking of course), or a web application like Luis describes below.  

You can’t pick the best route if you haven’t decided on a destination.

—Peter

I’m in total agreement with Luis’s opening paragraph below; to do all the things he mentions, you need a web application.  This will be complex no matter how it’s done.

So, the question is, what



> On Jul 23, 2020, at 8:07 AM, Luis Guzman <luis.guzman.ve at gmail.com> wrote:
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> A web site that has member registration, login, and password reset, and uploading and viewing of pictures and documents is not a simple web site. It is a web application, and you need to have a database.  Just plain HTML will not do.
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> Being a developer, I hate Wordpress, and I will not do anything using it. I have worked with it in the past, and what I can tell you is that it is  a slug. You are going to have problems with it, and sometimes you will need a developer to help with the problems.
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> I work with php (which is a very known scripting language for building web applications), MySql (database), javascript, jquery, HTML and CSS. I also use the Zend Framework (A php component library).
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> If I built the site, the current members will not have to do any maintenance on the site at all for the rest of their lives. I’m only 61, do not smoke, eat well, run 3 miles every other day, occasionally drink some alcohol, do not drive much as I work remotely, my bed is close to the floor, I do not argue with the admiral (this is more dangerous than driving), I put my underwear on while sitting so I won’t trip and break my neck, sail a Rhodes 22 (the safest sailboat there is), and I’m a descendant of a family with a long longevity history. :-)
> 
> 
> Am I hired yet, or do I have to keep going?
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> 
> I’m pretty sure that there will always be somebody here with the correct knowledge to take care of the site. With time, technologies become obsolete, and sites need to be redone, technology changes really quick, so whatever you do is going to have to be constantly revised and changed.
> 
> Luis A. Guzmán
> S/V Aquetxali
>