Raswan
Senior member
So, I've been kicking around the idea of starting a website that will serve several specific functions, and finally have time this semester to get started on it. What I'd like it to do:
1. Be a central place where I can upload and organize class notes I've taken, research projects, power points and teaching outlines for courses I teach, useful links I've collected over the years (like online archives), maybe the books I read (currently using an excel spreadsheet) or even my library catalogue. Maybe a video or two if it's possible, but I don't know how much space they give you.
2. I'd like to be able to lock access to specific places/pages/portions of the site with passwords.
3. Stable is better than the most powerful/trendy. I don't want to have to move everything over in a few years (why I'm not using my university's web hosting services).
The idea is to get rid of most of the 250+ bookmarks I am forced to hang onto, without creating some cumbersome-ass word doc with a list. Also, rather than deal with emailing around a shitpot of documents when I want to share things, or zipping them into something that mail servers can handle (seriously, it's 2012, how am I only able to send a 25MB email attachment? Get on that shit, Google), I can say "Just go here and download whatever you want." Plus it would be organized a lot more nicely and efficiently. Just seems like a better way to do shit.
Suggestions? Does anyone know how much space free webhosters typically give these days? I know you no longer need a degree in whatever to build one, but I'm not at the point where I'm willing to pay money to get decently powerful tools that are versatile to build it with. What I'm thinking of is something like this from a historian I happen to admire (http://www.williamcronon.net/contact.htm) or an old professor back at Saint Cloud State, who has some good shit but her website looks like it was built in 1993 (http://web.stcloudstate.edu/jadorn/).
Thanks in advance for any help.
1. Be a central place where I can upload and organize class notes I've taken, research projects, power points and teaching outlines for courses I teach, useful links I've collected over the years (like online archives), maybe the books I read (currently using an excel spreadsheet) or even my library catalogue. Maybe a video or two if it's possible, but I don't know how much space they give you.
2. I'd like to be able to lock access to specific places/pages/portions of the site with passwords.
3. Stable is better than the most powerful/trendy. I don't want to have to move everything over in a few years (why I'm not using my university's web hosting services).
The idea is to get rid of most of the 250+ bookmarks I am forced to hang onto, without creating some cumbersome-ass word doc with a list. Also, rather than deal with emailing around a shitpot of documents when I want to share things, or zipping them into something that mail servers can handle (seriously, it's 2012, how am I only able to send a 25MB email attachment? Get on that shit, Google), I can say "Just go here and download whatever you want." Plus it would be organized a lot more nicely and efficiently. Just seems like a better way to do shit.
Suggestions? Does anyone know how much space free webhosters typically give these days? I know you no longer need a degree in whatever to build one, but I'm not at the point where I'm willing to pay money to get decently powerful tools that are versatile to build it with. What I'm thinking of is something like this from a historian I happen to admire (http://www.williamcronon.net/contact.htm) or an old professor back at Saint Cloud State, who has some good shit but her website looks like it was built in 1993 (http://web.stcloudstate.edu/jadorn/).
Thanks in advance for any help.
