viking2917
Joined 11 years ago
Joined 11 years ago
Once the page structure is set up from the images (via the directory upload), you can upload new images for each page, but I didn't include an option to just create all the pages manually. It's a good idea. Going to add that...
I use Jekyll/Minimal Mistakes/Github pages for product blogs, where I just want to broadcast information or have it available for people to find through search, and where I need to own and brand the domain name itself.
I use Substack for a few projects where I want a stronger relationship with the audience - commenting, automatic email list building and distribution, and easy/attractive formatting. I just keep the Substack free, and don't worry about the domain name (x.substack.com) is fine.
Implementation seems a bit erratic, e.g. tried it on the Richard I page (Richard the Lionheart), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_I_of_England and get most random modern dates of research articles, and virtually none of the basic dates of his life (birth death, etc).
There are a few other Chrome extensions out there that do this. 100 Million Books, for instance, is very nice. The reason I don't care for it is the books are completely random, and often super esoteric.
Book Roulette uses the backed from the book recommendation engine The Hawaii Project which scans over a thousand book review websites to see what people are talking about. Book Roulette pulls from the more popular books on a given day so the results are likely to be topical some way.
Enjoy! (It's free, but the Amazon and Bookshop links are wired to my affiliate account so if you buy I do get a commission).
App Tier on iOS, Android, Web, from a single source built with: Ionic V1 / Javascript
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Deep Linking to app by Branch
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Server (old school: Mysql/PHP, MYSQL on AWS RDS server, PHP on the web servers @ EC2)
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Node + SimplePiE for ingesting and processing RSS feeds mentioning books.
Lifecycle email services through Mailgun.
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Social media automation: Buffer
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