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Sitesor a poor man’s database
(ok, really, MS Access)
Colin [email protected]
http://bytebot.net/blog/
27/06/2009
Saturday, 27 June 2009
Hosted sites
• Geocities?
• Tripod?
• AngelFire?
• Google Sites
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Benefits
• Can put it on your (sub)domain
• site.bytebot.net
• Can have it as part of Google Apps for Your Domain
• You get a whole lot more space (100MB/site vs 10GB/domain)
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An embarrassment from 1996
from web.archive.org
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Not much has changed in 2009
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Why do I bother?
• I blog a lot more these days, rather than update static HTML pages
• vim foo.html; rsync -e ssh -vzra foo.html bytebot.net:~/public_html/
• Pages on the other hand are great for “resource building”
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So, what’s Google Sites?
• Multimedia, calendars, presentations, text, all in one place
• Easy to use editor (like office software)
• Control permissions for viewing/editing
• Gadgets
• I want to play with this more
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But what really rocks?
• Templates!
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OK, its not just that
• Analytics integration
• AdSense integration
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Lists
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Lists
• Type:
• Checkbox, Date, Dropdown, Text, URL
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Voila! Poor man’s MS Access
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Embedding gadgets
Literally a pull-down menu away
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Problems?
• AdSense, you can’t track based on a channel
• Option to tag, in terms of type (making for easier organisation)
• Imagine a field where it was freeform “text”, but comma separation garnered them as tags
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