[FRIAM] Inexpensive Website Maker

[Stephen Guerin]

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.

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On Thu, Dec 26, 2024 at 11:49 AM Nicholas Thompson <thompnickson2 at 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
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