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Updated 5 months ago

Need some advice to create a website (I would use HugoBlox)

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The community member is not a web developer and wants to create a website for an academic laboratory. They tried using a generator called Hugoblox, but found it difficult to alter the design. They then purchased a permanent license for Webstudio, thinking it would be easier to create the site. They need advice on whether Webstudio can recreate features they found useful in Hugoblox, such as fetching publications from a .bib file.

Other community members suggest that Hugoblox requires some coding knowledge, such as installing Go, Git, and Node.js, which may be challenging for a non-developer. Webstudio, on the other hand, is a mixture of design and development that allows building simple or complex websites without coding knowledge.

The community member then asks for more specific advice on creating a page with team member profiles that link to individual pages with their photo, CV, and publications, as well as a separate page for all publications connected to the team members. A community member suggests that this can be done using Webstudio's CMS features, similar to a blog or other collection.

There is also a discussion about the IP address required by the university to connect the DNS, where community members explain that Cloudflare does not have a fixed IP address, and the 192.0.2.1 IP

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ttasora
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Hi! I am not a web developer and hadn't ever messed with html and css. I want to create a website for an academic laboratory and I was checking some ways how to do it. I saw this generator, https://hugoblox.com/, that has a relative template that simplifies the workflow via markdown files but I found it difficult to alter the design of the site.. Then I saw webstudio, for which I have bought a permanent license, thinking that it would be easier to create this site. I need though some advice whether it would be easier to recreate some things like I find them in hugoblox. E.g. the page for the publications is fetching them from a .bib file (that can be exported from Zotero, a bibliography management software) that I found super useful in hugoblox. Can you please help understand better the capabilities offered by webstudio?
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OOleg Isonen
@tasora whats your exact question? you wrote a lot of things, I need a simpler question to be able to answer
JJeremy
@tasora , looking over that site it seems like you'll need to understand how to code still. It isn't simply markdown. You'll need to install "Go", "Git" and optionally NodeJS. If you're not a developer then I'm assuming you'll run into many issues with trying to customize what's there.

Webstudio allows you to build whatever you want. It's a mixture between design/developer that allows you to build as simple or complex as you want.
ttasora
@Jeremy @Oleg Isonen Thank you both, I know my question was not to the point, it is because I am indeed not a developer and I don't know. May I still try to be more specific. I want to have a page with the team members. How can I create and assign some profiles to them, and when you click on a member to open a separate page with their photo, a short cv and their publications? Additionally, I want also a separate page with all the publications and connect the author names with team members. Please take a look here, https://research-group.netlify.app/, in the people and publications pages. Thank you very much
ttasora
I really like the fact that webstudio doesn't require coding knowledge and it can be easier to design the website. That's why I bought it in the first place!
JJeremy
If I understand correctly, you are looking for a list of team members on a single page and then link to each member's individual page?

This would be done exactly the same as a blog or other type of collection. If you watch some of the CMS videos on Webstudio's YouTube channel, you should be able to follow along. It's the exact same idea just named differently.
ttasora
Hi, can I ask a (maybe) dumb question. My intention is to build a site for a university laboratory. The university provides DNS of the for "www.XXX.ntua.gr" but they ask for an IP address that will be connected to the requested DNS. I read the section about publishing a website and it says to point to the cloudflare's 192.0.2.1 IP. Am I thinking it right that I should give them this IP?
OOleg Isonen
There will be no fixed IP. Cloudflare is a network of servers world-wide with a range of ip addresses.
ttasora
What about this IP 192.0.2.1?
JJohn Siciliano
That IP is a dummy IP address used to add a DNS record that doesnt turly point anywhere. It's just so cloudflare proxy can be used on a domain
JJohn Siciliano
mainly for redirects
JJohn Siciliano
Maybe this will help https://www.cloudflare.com/ips/
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