Are there more static HTML website or blog owners?

[froggyboy604]

I'm not sure since there are probably still a lot of static websites which are online from the 90s and older on free hosting sites like Tripod, AngelFire, etc and self-hosted static sites which would take too long to convert to a self hosted Wordpress blog because it has hundreds and thousands of articles.

But, most people I talk to these days seem to be choosing blogs like Tumblr, WordPress.com, Blogspot, and self hosted WordPress blogs, etc which are blog websites over static html hand coded website with Notepad, or using Dreamweaver to make a static html website with visual software editors.

Plus, blogs make it a lot easier for your average joe to publish new articles with the visual online editor, categorize and tag articles, and add advertising to make money with blogs via plug-ins/adsense plug-in compared to a static site which requires FTP, HTML, CSS, SEO (meta tag, keyword tag) and other web skills to get started compared to just making an account on Wordpress.com or Tumblr.com.

 

[Deleted member 12738]

Well, I don't know if there are many of these static page owners, but I must say the process of converting a static blog to a automated blog (e.g. Wordpress) can be automated with a PHP script. Of course this takes some time too and is much harder, but it will take way less time then converting a whole blog.

 

[Darknite]

I'm not sure since there are probably still a lot of static websites which are online from the 90s and older on free hosting sites like Tripod, AngelFire, etc and self-hosted static sites which would take too long to convert to a self hosted Wordpress blog because it has hundreds and thousands of articles.

That is not entirely correctly, there are many automated tools, that can "replicate/clone" sites. All that would be required is to crawl the site (and all its links) and scape the data and push that into a WP database.

I would be surprised if some plugin does not already exist for WP to do this!

 

[froggyboy604]

I guest that can work if you use some sort of a bot program like Google Bot, or scrapers which can scrape a subdomain's article on Tripod, Angelfire, and other free host to automatically post on WordPress.

 

[Abhirup Manna]

I'm interested in one such project but I'm no coder. I just love designing.