A lot of time has passed since my last post (typically an indicator of how busy I am) but since then I have at least found out something interesting.
You might recall, I was trying to get a wiki created for my class that is starting this next quarter. Well I had some great examples from my profs, friends, and other awesome wikis. So I thought to start there. My advisor uses mediawiki and seems to move quietly through the process of adding information and running his various classes with it. Me I was not so lucky. Perhaps its due to my inability to identify with the way the open source software worked, or just my inability to easily articulate what I wanted where. In any case, mediawiki and I parted ways, and not so peacefully.
After a few weeks of colorful expletives, I decided to choose something that I didn’t need to install. Truth be told, I love to tinker with things, but I needed more production and less tinker to get accomplished than was possible at the time. So, instead through the suggestions of a another professor and his book (shameless plug to follow) "Build a website for free" by Bell – I decided to investigate, Google sites.
Much to my amazement, it is awesome. My site is up and working well (albeit not perfectly as of yet). GS manages to point to my lovely URL, it provided templates, it lowered my stress and it got the material up and online so I could concentrate on other matters.
My kudos goes out to Google yet again. Keep on taking over the world, one byte at time. I will submit and be assimilated, happily.
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