I'll second that endorsement of WordPress. For my business, I took the route of buying a domain and hosting (cheap), but use a Wordpress theme as the design engine. Took me a couple days to get familiar with it, but it wasn't hard to get going. The biggest challenge of a blog-based thing is keeping it updated so it doesn't look abandoned. Trying this morning to dream up a topic.... One nice thing is most designs work on mobile devices.
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Sent: Monday, October 19, 2015 11:12 AM
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Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] vintage equipment schematics and photos social media "stream"
You might want to try WordPress.
I think they give you 2gb of free storage.
You create a new post, upload an image, give the post a title, maybe a tag, hit submit and you're done. The whole thing takes less than a minute.
WordPress also lends itself to easier browsing.
On Oct 19, 2015 09:56, "Tom Fine" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi Bob:
>
> I've dealt with those folks before. I offered to send them a hard
> drive full of vintage audio manuals, schematics, literature, etc. They
> basically said thanks but no thanks, apparently they don't have a good
> automated way to port stuff like that onto their online sites. I
> definitely don't have very much time for this, so I was thinking some sort of "broadcast channel"
> like a social media thing would be best. Ideally, I'd spend about 2
> minutes in some sort of upload interface dragging and dropping a jpg
> or group of jpgs, and then the word would go out over the social media
> that there was an update. People who "follow" would then know there's
> something new to look at or download. This seems more modern than a static website.
>
> -- Tom Fine
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "bARC" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, October 19, 2015 9:38 AM
> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] vintage equipment schematics and photos social
> media "stream"
>
>
> Hi Tom. Would you be interested in posting on the Internet Archives site
> as a separate 'collection' ? We would love to help with this. Sounds
> great. In this way people from all over the world could add to the data.
>
> B. George
> Director, ARChive of Contemporary Music, NYC Curator, Sound
> Collections, The Internet Archive, San Francisco
>
>
>
>
>
> On Oct 19, 2015, at 8:43 AM, Tom Fine <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> I would like to set up a "channel" or "stream" to post JPG scans of
>> old equipment schematics and photos and brochure/manual pages. What
>> is the best app or website to use for this? Ideally, I'd like to just
>> upload stuff and then tell a couple of lists about it and word can
>> spread from there. I don't want to spend any time "curating" things
>> like "friends" lists or requests and I don't want to chat or message
>> with people viewing the "channel," it would just be a resource for
>> those interested in such things to grab up a steady flow of information. Is there such a site or app?
>> Perhaps a regular blog website is better?
>>
>> -- Tom Fine
>> Trying to (slowly) enter the 21st Century
>>
>
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