Need quick, easy website-building tool for a static site with inline/embedded audio.
February 29, 2012 9:15 PM Subscribe
Need to build quick & dirty static website from scratch, with some audio, preferably wsiwyg. Is there a service that does what I need?
I want to build a basic site, very quickly, that is essentially a list of performing artists with either links to Youtube video that I can play inline (I believe there's still no option from Google to just play embedded youtube audio) or Flashed, uploaded tunes. The closest I could find that would do this is Weebly, but it won't let you do a whole lot with their 'elements', be they Youtube or their Flashed audio widgets, such that they line up nicely either directly next to or directly beneath each list-ed artist. If I was blogging, sure, Weebly would be perfect, but I'm only doing this as a one-time thing and it's a big-ass list. I suppose I could make the list read up top, and then have a bunch of links at the bottom, but that's a little *too* dirty.
Yes yes I know coding from scratch is 'better' but I have neither the time nor inclination. Anything?
Thanks mefiters.
I want to build a basic site, very quickly, that is essentially a list of performing artists with either links to Youtube video that I can play inline (I believe there's still no option from Google to just play embedded youtube audio) or Flashed, uploaded tunes. The closest I could find that would do this is Weebly, but it won't let you do a whole lot with their 'elements', be they Youtube or their Flashed audio widgets, such that they line up nicely either directly next to or directly beneath each list-ed artist. If I was blogging, sure, Weebly would be perfect, but I'm only doing this as a one-time thing and it's a big-ass list. I suppose I could make the list read up top, and then have a bunch of links at the bottom, but that's a little *too* dirty.
Yes yes I know coding from scratch is 'better' but I have neither the time nor inclination. Anything?
Thanks mefiters.
Wordpress.com.
You can make "pages" rather than a "posts", and you can have the site go straight to one of those pages, say a list of artists. Also if you ever want to get more ambitious, you'll have plenty of scope for that.
All you need to have an embedded youtube video is to insert the URL.
You might want to look at something I made to keep track of my TIMJ liked tracks to get a sense of what you can very easily do with WP.
My entries are posts because I want a timeline, but you could make them pages just as easily.
posted by philipy at 6:36 AM on March 1, 2012
You can make "pages" rather than a "posts", and you can have the site go straight to one of those pages, say a list of artists. Also if you ever want to get more ambitious, you'll have plenty of scope for that.
All you need to have an embedded youtube video is to insert the URL.
You might want to look at something I made to keep track of my TIMJ liked tracks to get a sense of what you can very easily do with WP.
My entries are posts because I want a timeline, but you could make them pages just as easily.
posted by philipy at 6:36 AM on March 1, 2012
you can use wordpress and just embed the videos in each post. that would be the easiest. there are a ton of plugins that can make it easier to add the videos.
posted by sylviaunlimited at 6:57 PM on March 1, 2012
posted by sylviaunlimited at 6:57 PM on March 1, 2012
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posted by DarlingBri at 10:17 PM on February 29, 2012