Website idea — does this exist?
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- craigatkinson
For a simple work site, at present I use C@rgo having used indexhibit for years. I dislike the fact images have to be sized and uploaded and stored somewhere they wouldn't usually be.
What I would prefer is to designate a folder in Google Drive / Dropbox, for example, and have a website populate from that folder.
Is there such a system?
- Continuity0
I assume WordPress can be tweaked to pull content from a third-party CDN, yes?
- fruitsalad0
In the time spent writing your post, you could have googled "Dropbox website" the third result would have brought you to:
Just saying....
- craigatkinson0
yes thanks fruits alad, I've seen small victories but it creates its own folders. I'd like something that uses existing folders, otherwise the duplication is still there.
wordpress I've never liked, thanks though
- well.. you might be asking for the impossible.fruitsalad
- surely notcraigatkinson
- well after you run the small victories code and it duplicates your stuff into it's folder structure, just go back and delete you original files and folders.fruitsalad
- then no more duplicates.fruitsalad
- lol @ fruits aladmekk
- fruitsalad1
sounds like you need to code something yourself with some simple php to look at what's in your folders then have the php write the html for you.
It's pretty simple. Structure would be:
website request > runs index.php, that scans images folders for images, gets names and date of files into array, organises by date, simple loop to then write out div boxes that contain the images. Then use css / jquery to style and layout site.
issues might arise in your php/html will need to run from a server, your images will not be on the same server if in a google drive etc. so there could be a slow load or permission issues.
- craigatkinson-1
lost me at 'sounds like'
- Surely he lost you at 'you need to code'. If you didn't even read past 'sounds like' then you must surely be some kind of simpletonset
- ha. What?craigatkinson
- Simpleton confirmedset
- thank youcraigatkinson
- xset
- LOLMrT
- craigatkinson0
small victories I'll give a go, they've added some stuff...
cheers
- keep us posted. curious to hear your experience with itGnash
- craigatkinson0
Been setting stuff up on Small Victories. It's a good system. Basic, easy if you just need a very fast site for something.
I use Google for most things, inc drive for storage. I've found the new Google Sites works well. Fewer options in some cases, such as custom domain, but maybe faster than SV, and certainly more intuitive.
Only playing for now to test options but as an example, here's the Google site:
https://sites.google.com/view/cr…And here's the Small Victories one:
craigatkinson.smvi.co
- craigatkinson0
Gnash, SV is set to pull in from a folder — V straight forward. The folder has to be in Dropbox, which I don't really use.
Google site uses images from Google Drive folder, which I do use, but it doesn't just pull all, you have to select. This is annoying because it means every time you have a new image you have to upload it as well as place in the folder and automation would be good. Also, for a weird reason Google sites still links to Picasa, not Google Photos. And there are two versions of google sites, the new one has /new attached to the domain!
- what if you use the desktop versions of dropbox and google drive, and put an alias or google folder 'within' the dropbox folder?fruitsalad
- then you can keep using google drive to store stuff, but have it feed into dropbox for your small victories site.fruitsalad
- would prob work okcraigatkinson
- SlashPeckham0
- yes, like a modern indexhibit. Still extra systems though. I'm all for 'just one' system / locationcraigatkinson
- Gnash0
I prefer the way google site presents the drawing. but would be nice to click on an image to see it larger. SV presents it all too large, but perhaps that looks better on mobile (which I haven't tried).
again, killer pieces.
- although, not having a custom domain is a bit of a deal breakerGnash
- cheers. I don't know how important a custom domain is any more. I have one that I will redirect eventually, and have my domain email.craigatkinson
- both good on mobile btwcraigatkinson
- jamesbeat0
You should give jekyll a try: https://jekyllrb.com/
Setup can be a bit fiddly but once it's running its a breeze.
File structure and handling is fully customizable and combined with scaffolding tools like grunt it gets really powerful. I use it for almost every website that doesn't need a database.