[dba-Tech] WordPress or something else?

[Dan Waters]

Hi Rocky,

A few months ago I made a site using Wix.com.  I think I paid for a year at $9/mo.  An excellent deal!  Blogs are included.  Updating your site is a just matter of clicking on the Publish button.  They do have a free trial.

My site is www.ProMationSystems.com.

All the best!
Dan

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-Tech [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller
Sent: February 15, 2018 11:15
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: [dba-Tech] WordPress or something else?

After lo these many years, I have decided that it's time to create my own website. Given my limited fixed income, cost is of the essence, the ideal being Free. It appears that WordPress will at least let me start a blog for free, but it also appears that this option alone will cover some of the bases but not all.

Besides wanting the site from which to launch my frequent opinions on various subjects, I would also like to provide access to to the hundreds of articles I have written on Access, SQL Server, MySQL, and Data-Modeling in general; in addition, I have written a lot, and intend to continue writing about, various topics related to Philosophy, Politics and Science. The first three would seem to demand the ability to attach zip files to the articles of interest, of which there are several dozen articles with sample code in various forms, ranging from code blocks to sample databases, and I don't think that's possible with a simple blog. The latter three topics could be all lumped together at random into a single blog, or perhaps categories might be a better approach. Not sure about which might have greater appeal (assuming that anyone shares my interests in these subjects).

I do have a spare computer that I could turn into a web-server and run it from home, but I'm guessing that the I/O will suck.

I can afford a few bucks a month for a genuine host. Assuming that's a better direction, then I need to figure out how to design and develop the site locally, and then post updates and additions to the actual host. I won't need massive GB for the zips, since they all consist of small sample databases or SQL scripts.

Maybe the idea of starting with a blog is all wrong, and that I ought to be thinking of a site which distinguishes items by topic rather than content (which would sometimes be pure text and sometimes text plus a link to its associated zip file.

In short, I have very little idea how to implement this, and am seeking free advice. I'm cruising the WP site and reading its materials, and trying to absorb as much of this material as I can, but I'm way out of my depth.

Please don't swing an oar at me (c.f. *The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.0*,  a tale combining quantum mechanics with witchcraft, a strange brew indeed, co-authored by Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland), as Tristan did when Sent back to a previous time.

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Arthur
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