Nick, a "easy website platform" can be divided into 3 components
1. creating the html/css/javascript content and linked media (pdf docs, images, videos, etc) 2. claiming and paying an annual fee for a namespace (eg naturaldesigns.org). More reliable long term than being a subdomain or path on someone else's domain like you did with earthlink.net. those can easily go away. 3. hosting the pages and media on a public server that the namespace points to I looked at your expired naturaldesigns site in the wayback machine where you were renting space on home.earthlink.net/~nicktompson/naturaldesigns https://web.archive.org/web/20150910084054/http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/index.html for shits and giggles, I did step 2 and claimed naturaldesigns.org and placed a copy of the limited archive of your site there. Still some broken links. see: https://naturaldesigns.org It is interesting to think about a long term strategy of setting up a trust, a kind of digital estate planning / "digital legacy" with an endowment of maybe 30x the annual cost to create an annuity stream to maintain the cost of a site so that your digital assets may be accessible forever. I suspect law firms will get into this space and some are already there. - annual domain name registration $4-$10/year - hosting $2-$10/month - human admin to move to new technologies which will pop up every 5-10 years ($300/annual). - trust admin fee ~$100/year ~30 * $500 ~= $15,000. _________________________________________________________________ Stephen Guerin CEO, Founder https://simtable.com stephen.gue...@simtable.com stephengue...@fas.harvard.edu Harvard Visualization Research and Teaching Lab <https://hwpi.harvard.edu/eps-visualization-research-laboratory/home> mobile: (505)577-5828 On Thu, Dec 26, 2024 at 11:49 AM Nicholas Thompson <thompnicks...@gmail.com> wrote: > Does anybody have recent experience with a easy website maker platform. > I want to experiment with a website but GoDaddy wants ten bucks a month > just to talk to me. > > Nick > > -- > Nicholas S. Thompson > > .- .-.. .-.. / ..-. --- --- - . .-. ... / .- .-. . / .-- .-. --- -. --. / > ... --- -- . / .- .-. . / ..- ... . ..-. ..- .-.. > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://bit.ly/virtualfriam > to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >
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