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Some of the suggestions in this thread are completely nuts. If you are building a traditional marketing website for a client, you're doing your client a disserv

Some of the suggestions in this thread are completely nuts. If you are building a traditional marketing website for a client, you're doing your client a disservice if you don't use a CMS or hosted platform like Wordpress, Squarespace, Webflow, Shopify etc. You should be delivering something to them that it easy to maintain and document. If they need to get somebody in to help in 5 years, they shouldn't need to find a be full-stack web-app developer.

6510 3y ago
Here! https://wpengine.com/support/sync-new-post-and-pages/#Import_Content https://wpengine.com/support/sync-new-post-and-pages/#Import... I had to scroll up a bit to see the heading. They couldn't figure out how to jump to the #anchor apparently no one is actually looking at the new user experience. This wouldn't happen to me. It just wouldn't. https://5help.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/204965388-Importing-Blogger-or-WordPress-blog-posts#:~:text=Log%20into%20your%20Squarespace%205%20site.%20In%20the,URL%20that%20visitors%20use%20to%20visit%20that%20blog https://5help.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/204965388-Im.... I would not make links like: 5help.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/204965388-Importing-Blogger-or-WordPress-blog-posts#:~:text=Log%20into%20your%20Squarespace%205%20site.%20In%20the,URL%20that%20visitors%20use%20to%20visit%20that%20blog. but there it is. Ready for consumption. https://webflow.com/updates/csv-import https://webflow.com/updates/csv-import Seems good enough if you can find the page. https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/products/import-export/import-products https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/products/import-export/im... Along with a long list of expensive plugins they will need if they want to keep the custom functionality. It will lack some thing but have other things that hopefully somewhat make up for it. One should also have a new terms of service and user agreement ready in case of migration. You see? If you prepare for it clients can downgrade whenever they like and everything becomes a nail.
- aosaigh 3y ago
  I don’t see? What point is being made here?
  - 6510 3y ago
    You point out this flaw in the plan: > You should be delivering something to them that it easy to maintain and document. If they need to get somebody in to help in 5 years, they shouldn't need to find a be full-stack web-app developer. Privately I call it the bus factor heist. It is when you get paid or promise to do something then quickly die before having to do the work. To avoid or at least remedy that I have some documents and some code to help the next dev migrate things. A platform might also have some feature that is hard or impossible to replicate. Say they end up using other software that only plays well with specific platforms. Ideally there would also be a way back to the custom website. I'm not saying you are wrong but people (like myself) are already invested in the mistake. For example: I calculate a very low delivery cost by town or neighborhood name. It's very simple as the radius doesn't involve many places and they never move or change name. Addresses in the longest village in the country has only one street and the distance ranges from 0.5 to 10km. If the customer lives there it needs to be slightly more specific. I think on shopify this could be replaced with easyroutes[1] But woah! That thing brings a bazillion features that are not needed. It's wonderful but not mission critical. I'm not even sure if it can match the existing implementation. Is it worth $450/month? Some things melt, some expire fast, some food stuffs are fragile. The drivers know to get rid of the expensive wedding cake first and drive slowly. Easyroutes amazingly efficient route planner is simply not needed. However accurate I cant make schedules from that. [1] - https://www.roundtrip.ai/easyroutes/pricing https://www.roundtrip.ai/easyroutes/pricing

6510 3y ago

Here! https://wpengine.com/support/sync-new-post-and-pages/#Import_Content https://wpengine.com/support/sync-new-post-and-pages/#Import... I had to scroll up a bit to see the heading. They couldn't figure out how to jump to the #anchor apparently no one is actually looking at the new user experience. This wouldn't happen to me. It just wouldn't. https://5help.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/204965388-Importing-Blogger-or-WordPress-blog-posts#:~:text=Log%20into%20your%20Squarespace%205%20site.%20In%20the,URL%20that%20visitors%20use%20to%20visit%20that%20blog https://5help.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/204965388-Im.... I would not make links like: 5help.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/204965388-Importing-Blogger-or-WordPress-blog-posts#:~:text=Log%20into%20your%20Squarespace%205%20site.%20In%20the,URL%20that%20visitors%20use%20to%20visit%20that%20blog. but there it is. Ready for consumption. https://webflow.com/updates/csv-import https://webflow.com/updates/csv-import Seems good enough if you can find the page. https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/products/import-export/import-products https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/products/import-export/im... Along with a long list of expensive plugins they will need if they want to keep the custom functionality. It will lack some thing but have other things that hopefully somewhat make up for it. One should also have a new terms of service and user agreement ready in case of migration. You see? If you prepare for it clients can downgrade whenever they like and everything becomes a nail.

aosaigh 3y ago
I don’t see? What point is being made here?
- 6510 3y ago
  You point out this flaw in the plan: > You should be delivering something to them that it easy to maintain and document. If they need to get somebody in to help in 5 years, they shouldn't need to find a be full-stack web-app developer. Privately I call it the bus factor heist. It is when you get paid or promise to do something then quickly die before having to do the work. To avoid or at least remedy that I have some documents and some code to help the next dev migrate things. A platform might also have some feature that is hard or impossible to replicate. Say they end up using other software that only plays well with specific platforms. Ideally there would also be a way back to the custom website. I'm not saying you are wrong but people (like myself) are already invested in the mistake. For example: I calculate a very low delivery cost by town or neighborhood name. It's very simple as the radius doesn't involve many places and they never move or change name. Addresses in the longest village in the country has only one street and the distance ranges from 0.5 to 10km. If the customer lives there it needs to be slightly more specific. I think on shopify this could be replaced with easyroutes[1] But woah! That thing brings a bazillion features that are not needed. It's wonderful but not mission critical. I'm not even sure if it can match the existing implementation. Is it worth $450/month? Some things melt, some expire fast, some food stuffs are fragile. The drivers know to get rid of the expensive wedding cake first and drive slowly. Easyroutes amazingly efficient route planner is simply not needed. However accurate I cant make schedules from that. [1] - https://www.roundtrip.ai/easyroutes/pricing https://www.roundtrip.ai/easyroutes/pricing