[Rhodes22-list] Website Development

[jfn302 at yahoo.com]

Luis,

I would say that the only time I've experienced wordpress being a slug is in one of two situations.  Photos that are uploaded haven't been downscaled properly for web use.  Or, a plugin is causing problems.  Other than that, the core is stable and fast.  

Wordpress comes with member registration, login and password reset built in, it can use oAuth in case it is decided that two-factor authentication is desirable.

Basic blog posts can be used as galleries, or there are gallery plugins that use CDN (content delivery network) for pulling the photos from Amazon S3.  

There are plugins for managing mailing lists and archives, or it can link to the currently used archival system.

I'm in the process of building a web application right now for a new technology startup and the amount of work that I will have to do to achieve all this functionality by the end of the project is daunting to think about.  Currently it is just me and one other developer.  But that is something for later on in development, right now I'm just focused on making the service that we plan on providing 100% functional.

I'm sure you probably have a bunch of tools already built that you can just drop into place to build the website and it would be stable for the known future, but if a stable platform exists and offers flexibility and new features that may or may not be interesting to the community, why not take advantage of it?

James

-----Original Message-----
From: Rhodes22-list <rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org> On Behalf Of Luis Guzman
Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2020 7:07 AM
To: The Rhodes 22 mail list <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Website Development

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.

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.

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).

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?


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


> On Jul 23, 2020, at 5:37 AM, Peter Nyberg <peter at sunnybeeches.com> wrote:
> 
> Yes.  I’m out for a week with no itinerary. 
> 
> —Peter
> 
>> On Jul 22, 2020, at 10:04 PM, Michael D. Weisner <mweisner at ebsmed.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Peter,
>> Did you sail over from New London?  Mike.  s/v Wind Lass ('91).Nissequogue, NY
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>