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It is easier today, Netlify like apps offer the best of both parts ,integrate SSG to graphical UI. You can add CI pipelines for things like say W3C html validat
by manquer 5y ago
It is easier today, Netlify like apps offer the best of both parts ,integrate SSG to graphical UI. You can add CI pipelines for things like say W3C html validation, translation or WCAG compliance or image/asset optimization (designers sometimes forget), AMP generation, S3/CDN like hosting etc.
I was tempted to building something like like you did, but came to the same conclusion many do : it is not our core business and marketing will still have issues as the offering won't be as good as a professional one.
Even a solution to bridge the two setups needs dev time to maintain. End of the day managed solutions like Hubspot comes in cheaper in total cost of ownership even though all of this kind of architecture is technically superior.
- gtirloni 5y agoThat's what we did here. Moved from WordPress to Netlify CMS and Eleventy and users managed fine (I'm told).
- manquer 5y agoNetlify is a good solution, glad that it is getting some love. The move for us was before netlify became popular so never could consider it. That's why I was tempted to build, then I realized bulk of the work will be to build the graphical UI editor and templating tools - the parts I hate to begin with.
- lostcolony 5y agoSo we were dealing with a Django thing that was a complete cluster of unmaintainable, and it was about 6 years ago, so more limited options than today. It took...maybe 40 man hours to write a script, get it into the build pipeline, and have everything work? A few days for a coupla guys, basically. It would have taken us longer to switch CMSes, just in user training, I suspect.