where do I start conversion of an old static html site over 1500 pages? a bit overwhelmed
I set up a codepen https://codepen.io/steveo212/pen/qEORdLr to illustrate the basic structure. Looking for help on where to start. The site needs to be responsive, so the main menu needs to collapse to a hamburger (minimal to no JS if possible). FYI, this is a passion project and the site does not generate revenue, I'm just trying to modernize it and practice some of what I am seeing on Kevin's youtube videos so that I keep the consistency on the approach.
Question: Is the HTML structure appropriate or should I consider a different approach? The channel-menu-bar-section is a bit redundant. What I'm trying to accomplish is that when the site is being viewed on a mobile device, the user can still understand which channel they are in and select a different article within the channel. When viewing on a desktop, have two columns where the channelName is displayed and articles are listed. Please direct me to which videos I should watch as I do want to learn. Thank you
Question: Is the HTML structure appropriate or should I consider a different approach? The channel-menu-bar-section is a bit redundant. What I'm trying to accomplish is that when the site is being viewed on a mobile device, the user can still understand which channel they are in and select a different article within the channel. When viewing on a desktop, have two columns where the channelName is displayed and articles are listed. Please direct me to which videos I should watch as I do want to learn. Thank you
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you will want a cms
Yeah, I went down that road. sections of the site have already moved to Drupal and Wordpress. For this part, I just want simple static pages, no plug-ins, frameworks or other maintenance intensive components (although I do agree, maintaining html by hand is maintenance). Besides, I want to learn "what's under the hood". Thanks
well, since you're going that way, if you go for wordpress, you can do it the lazy way
you can create those pages by shoving the html in an html block
maybe can even be automated
Sorry for the confusion. I do not want to go into a CMS. I just want to 'hand craft' the html pages.
Drupal is a pain...
you can use a static site generator that supports html
and it will throw nicely formatted pages for you
i think hugo and jeckill support html
i know astro does
basically, you remove the repeated garbage and just keep the content
and that content is what you pass as the file to be rendered
you can automate it with bash, batch, python, js, php, ... anything