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How to Set Up a Gift Website?

Posted by michael on from the don't-look-it-in-the-mouth dept.

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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  1. Get them to change their name to 404 by corebreech · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.)

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  2. Dear Sir and/or Madame by mikeophile · · Score: 4, Funny
    It has come to our attention that you are discussing the creation of an online gift site. We are required to inform you that our client holds extensive patents on not only online gift sites but the discussion thereof. Please cease and desist immediately. Thank you for your compliance.

    Sincerely,

    Amazon.com Legal Department

  3. Re:You gunna pay for it forever? by MarkJensen · · Score: 5, Funny
    Don't buy people things that need money fed into them forever.

    Like a computer?

  4. The easiest solution by skinfitz · · Score: 4, Funny

    Have you considered just getting them socks or chocolate?

  5. Re:.Mac by BWJones · · Score: 4, Funny

    Get them an iMac with a .Mac account. It handles all your needs :)

    I second this. I purchased an iBook and a .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.

    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....

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  6. Re:PHPnuke ? by MavEtJu · · Score: 4, Funny

    it's like bashing MySQL for not being a good word processor.

    Hah! Another piece of dirt I can throw at these mysql monkeys!

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  7. Re:.mac by Aardpig · · Score: 4, Funny

    you won't have the vanity of familysmith.com

    Sod the vanity, that Kelly is HOT!

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  8. Re:.mac by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Reality check.