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Love it. Reminds me of building sites with iWeb and RapidWeaver back in the early 2000s. They were a great way to get started building sites without having to m
by mattkevan 8y ago
Love it. Reminds me of building sites with iWeb and RapidWeaver back in the early 2000s. They were a great way to get started building sites without having to muck about with databases and whatnot.
It sees to me though I’m happy to be proven wrong, there’s a real gap in the market for a powerful but not too technical website-building framework.
For me, Drupal 7 hit the sweet-spot between power and ease of development. I built some advanced sites without being a coder. However with D8 they went for the enterprise and it’s almost impossible to get the thing set up without being a serious developer.
Wordpress is hack-prone unless you know what you’re doing and anything beyond its basic blog features requires development or annual plugin subscriptions.
I love static site generators, but they do take a developer to set up and the -technical user experience is still a bodge, despite the best efforts of NetlifyCMS, Forestry, Cloudcannon etc.
CraftCMS looks nice, but features like user roles or ecommerce requires the pricey paid version.
Is there anything I’ve missed? What would you recommend?
Nice though platforms like Squarespace are, it’d be sad if the simple-but-powerful open source/self-hosted space was completely conceded to paid services.