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How to Set Up a Gift Website?
falzbro writes "I'm considering giving my parents their very own website for the holidays. However, it's harder than anticipated to find any type of Content Management System whose intended audience is a computer illiterate family. I personally use Drupal for content and Gallery for photo albums, and frankly can't stand PHPNuke. The only features required would be a blog of sorts and a photo album. I can't be the first one in this predicament, can I?"
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(sorry, had to be said)
-3Suns
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The Revolution will be Slashdotted
Man, you must really hate your parents to give them such a crappy gift. Why?
Will they actually use/update it?
Too many websites go into the bit-bucket simply because it's no longer "fun" or becomes too much work to manage. If your parents are really interested in having their own site, go for it! I'd recommend getting them a free website to start then move them to a larger setup when the time comes.
Don't forget to wrap it in continuous feed printer paper and use a ribbon cable for the bow!
If "disco" means "I learn" in Latin, does "discothèque" mean "I learn technology"?
Then make up a URL and tell them it's their new home page.
(and that if they want to change it that they'll have to wait till next X-mas.)
Is this truly the only Earth I can live on?
Sincerely,
Amazon.com Legal Department
Don't worry, there's more than enough colon here!
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
Like a computer?
Have you considered just getting them socks or chocolate?
Get them an iMac with a .Mac account. It handles all your needs :)
.Mac account for my sister who just had a kid so she could do just this sort of thing for family around the world so we can all see pictures of the baby. She is a complete computer novice, but her digital camera was immediately recognized so she could download pictures and then post them to her .Mac website so we can all see them. Additionally, there is/was a free iBlog program that came with the .Mac account.
I second this. I purchased an iBook and a
She tells me "I had no idea setting up and running a website was this easy. All that time you spent on your computer years ago entering all that HTML code was kinda wasted. Wasn't it?". I responded with something like, "uhhhhh, yeah. But back then....
Visit Jonesblog and say hello.
I gave my wife a domain name + website as a gift some years ago (http://www.trickenzie.com/). She wasn't my wife then, we were just seeing each other.
When I told her about her new email addresses (as many as she wants!) and website she just looked at me and said "You bought me a domain name?"
"Yeah."
This was followed by that utter dead silence men know only so well - it was a pivitol moment...
Then she smiled and nodded. Now she wouldn't live without it.
A geek love story, presented to you by the letters C and O and M.
Alas gallinaceas de urbe bovis volo
it's like bashing MySQL for not being a good word processor.
Hah! Another piece of dirt I can throw at these mysql monkeys!
bash$
you won't have the vanity of familysmith.com
Sod the vanity, that Kelly is HOT!
Tubal-Cain smokes the white owl.
Reality check.
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Karma: Chevy Kavalierma.
Man, and here I was all proud of making my folks a clay ashtray.
"Yeah, well, Dracula called and he's coming over tonight for you and I said okay."
Peter [...] is trying not to pee in his big boy underpants but at lunch he failed his mission. He is wearing his Pull-ups once again.
Folks, I think we can all sympathize with Peter. (I'm trying not to pee in my big boy underpants, too!)