My solution to this is https://pinkpigeon.co.uk https://pinkpigeon.co.uk I built it specifically to address shortfalls of other site builders: - No themes -

My solution to this is https://pinkpigeon.co.uk https://pinkpigeon.co.uk I built it specifically to address shortfalls of other site builders: - No themes - Uses 'modules' rather than the strangely popular drag and drop thing with blocks and widgets (which then jumble about the page wildly when resizing). We have 40 modules at the moment and I keep building more. - 100% mobile optimised. We hide no functionality and most page editing I tend to do side by side, with the CMS in a separate window next to the preview site - The preview site updates automatically when you hit 'save' so that it can be viewed on many devices in real-time at the same time (and shared easily too) - It's very fast. No React or other shenanigans. There is JS for the more complex interactions, but it's been applied sparingly. Doesn't work without JS though. - Sites are deployed to Cloudflare Workers Sites. The SSG behind the scenes is Hugo I don't advertise this thing anywhere and all my clients are word of mouth. I have yet to hear a single negative thing from anyone. I live in the countryside so my clients are all pensioners who don't know computers. They've all had run-ins with WordPress and naturally hated it. (though I don't want to knock a properly setup WordPress, IMO you have to be technical to do it and my system is aimed specifically at non technical people) I don't do shops and even blogs are probably not directly my target audience. But if you just need to make a simple site with pictures, videos and images (maybe a mailchimp signup, instagram gallery or Google calendar signup or showing some PDF newsletters), then I'd challenge you to do it faster in any other system. I'm doing this on the side, so have no time to build websites, so it takes no time to build websites in my system :) (I've built a lot of websites for free and just end up collecting the hosting charge which is between £8-£13 a month, which is hopefully similar to some sitebuilders, but I can't compete with the £3 per month offerings that tie you into other services and immediately become more expensive as soon as you add any meaningful functionality.) There are about a billion things I want to improve about it of course. It's certainly not perfect, but finding the time is a challenge. I hope to one day be able to make it my full time job.