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One thing a miss: a simple, easy to use, wysiwyg html editor. Also, these days it also would have to be open source. So, my only options look like bluegriffon,
by marcodiego 5y ago
One thing a miss: a simple, easy to use, wysiwyg html editor. Also, these days it also would have to be open source. So, my only options look like bluegriffon, whose license/monetization I don't like, or Mozilla Composer (actually seamonkey), which seems basically abandoned in terms of features and maintenance seem to only make it compile and run on modern system.
Some people may suggest a CMS, but I don't want a CMS. I just want a simple way to create a personal page. What alternative still remains?
- edmcnulty101 5y agoThe problem with wysiwyg is that I think CSS makes it hard to make these things. Those editors always seemed to make the kludgiest CSS because the CSS 'cascade' makes it hard to create drag and drop components. Any one more knowledgeable can correct me if I'm wrong.
- benibela 5y agoThe hardest problem is wysiwyg for different screen sizes
- edmcnulty101 5y agoOhh yeah. Couldn't they do it with media queries?
- marcus_holmes 5y agoSomething like Hugo, I guess, though it's not WYSIWYG. But I don't think a WYSIWYG editor would cope with today's websites too well. Back in the day everyone viewed your website on a desktop computer, in something around 1024x768 resolution, and if you designed for that then you were fine for most readers. Now, most people will be viewing it on a mobile device, with twice the resolution than it actually appears, and a huge range of possible aspect ratios. There's no WYSIWYG tool that can handle this easily. Fortunately, there are lots of really simple ways to host your personal page now. From Github/lab pages, to Cloudflare pages, to AWS S3 buckets, there's a huge range of hosting options. I've used Hugo via Gitlab pages, and it worked really well. Especially because free (as in beer).