Going to be redoing my website this week.
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Going to be redoing my website this week. I'd ideally like something lightweight and rock-solid that mostly works with static content, but I would like to have the option to add very limited eCommerce, comment form and contact form options at a later stage. WordPress seems vastly overkill for this, while I was mildly underwhelmed by #ghost last time I tried, partially due to the #accessibility of the backoffice lagging behind where I'd like it to be.
What would be good for this, something based on #astro perhaps? Eleventy? Roll my own? #webdev #indieWeb -
Going to be redoing my website this week. I'd ideally like something lightweight and rock-solid that mostly works with static content, but I would like to have the option to add very limited eCommerce, comment form and contact form options at a later stage. WordPress seems vastly overkill for this, while I was mildly underwhelmed by #ghost last time I tried, partially due to the #accessibility of the backoffice lagging behind where I'd like it to be.
What would be good for this, something based on #astro perhaps? Eleventy? Roll my own? #webdev #indieWeb@zersiax I mean my personal site is just built with Astro and tailwindcss and that's all I need. If you're looking for something minimal and solid I say just roll your own.
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Going to be redoing my website this week. I'd ideally like something lightweight and rock-solid that mostly works with static content, but I would like to have the option to add very limited eCommerce, comment form and contact form options at a later stage. WordPress seems vastly overkill for this, while I was mildly underwhelmed by #ghost last time I tried, partially due to the #accessibility of the backoffice lagging behind where I'd like it to be.
What would be good for this, something based on #astro perhaps? Eleventy? Roll my own? #webdev #indieWeb@zersiax I highly recommend Astro if you have some development skills. I've been using it for my own site and I love it.
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Going to be redoing my website this week. I'd ideally like something lightweight and rock-solid that mostly works with static content, but I would like to have the option to add very limited eCommerce, comment form and contact form options at a later stage. WordPress seems vastly overkill for this, while I was mildly underwhelmed by #ghost last time I tried, partially due to the #accessibility of the backoffice lagging behind where I'd like it to be.
What would be good for this, something based on #astro perhaps? Eleventy? Roll my own? #webdev #indieWeb@zersiax Vibe code a few PHP files, wrap into a Docker container (I can give you my docker compose if you wish). Thus you'll be free to implement eCommerce in future.
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Going to be redoing my website this week. I'd ideally like something lightweight and rock-solid that mostly works with static content, but I would like to have the option to add very limited eCommerce, comment form and contact form options at a later stage. WordPress seems vastly overkill for this, while I was mildly underwhelmed by #ghost last time I tried, partially due to the #accessibility of the backoffice lagging behind where I'd like it to be.
What would be good for this, something based on #astro perhaps? Eleventy? Roll my own? #webdev #indieWeb@zersiax I use hugo to generate static content there are other static site generators if hugo doesn’t do it for you. It was surprisingly easy to integrate e-commerce when I had to but adding comments and forms were more difficult but not too difficult. You can really host hugo sites almost anywhere.
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Going to be redoing my website this week. I'd ideally like something lightweight and rock-solid that mostly works with static content, but I would like to have the option to add very limited eCommerce, comment form and contact form options at a later stage. WordPress seems vastly overkill for this, while I was mildly underwhelmed by #ghost last time I tried, partially due to the #accessibility of the backoffice lagging behind where I'd like it to be.
What would be good for this, something based on #astro perhaps? Eleventy? Roll my own? #webdev #indieWeb -
@jscholes@dragonscave.space @zersiax@cupoftea.social @KaraLG84@dragonscave.space it's going to be interesting to see where Eleventy is heading, now that it's becoming "Build Awesome."
A few options that might be worth considering and don't depend on the JavaScript ecosystem —and all that that brings with it— in no particular order: Hugo (Go) Jekyll (Ruby), Pelican (Python), BSSG (Bash), and Zine (Zig).
A potentially useful resource is https://www.jamstack.org
I was personally rebuilding my blog using Hugo (coming from Ghost), but I've been reconsidering that choice for other reasons, and was looking at some of the ones I mentioned above. Right now I'm personally leaning towards Nikola (Python), but have not fully made up my mind just yet.
I hope this helps!
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Going to be redoing my website this week. I'd ideally like something lightweight and rock-solid that mostly works with static content, but I would like to have the option to add very limited eCommerce, comment form and contact form options at a later stage. WordPress seems vastly overkill for this, while I was mildly underwhelmed by #ghost last time I tried, partially due to the #accessibility of the backoffice lagging behind where I'd like it to be.
What would be good for this, something based on #astro perhaps? Eleventy? Roll my own? #webdev #indieWeb@zersiax If you are capable of rolling your own, why don't you do that? In small steps, you can make it exactly how you like it.
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@zersiax If you are capable of rolling your own, why don't you do that? In small steps, you can make it exactly how you like it.
@khleedril Honestly lack of time, mostly. HAVING a place where I can wax poetic about all the things I do is something i'd like. MAKING that place, less so. Tinkering with it, adding to something that already works, sure, but achieving escape velocity is the drudgery part for me
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@jscholes@dragonscave.space @zersiax@cupoftea.social @KaraLG84@dragonscave.space it's going to be interesting to see where Eleventy is heading, now that it's becoming "Build Awesome."
A few options that might be worth considering and don't depend on the JavaScript ecosystem —and all that that brings with it— in no particular order: Hugo (Go) Jekyll (Ruby), Pelican (Python), BSSG (Bash), and Zine (Zig).
A potentially useful resource is https://www.jamstack.org
I was personally rebuilding my blog using Hugo (coming from Ghost), but I've been reconsidering that choice for other reasons, and was looking at some of the ones I mentioned above. Right now I'm personally leaning towards Nikola (Python), but have not fully made up my mind just yet.
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@zersiax I use hugo to generate static content there are other static site generators if hugo doesn’t do it for you. It was surprisingly easy to integrate e-commerce when I had to but adding comments and forms were more difficult but not too difficult. You can really host hugo sites almost anywhere.
@grumpyoldtechie how did you end up adding eCommerce/forms, something like FormSpree/other third party SAAS options?
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@zersiax Vibe code a few PHP files, wrap into a Docker container (I can give you my docker compose if you wish). Thus you'll be free to implement eCommerce in future.
@menelion hah, I don't need to vibe code PHP if that's what I end up going with, wrote PHP for a living for years. Would actually love to spin up a Laravel project again to see what's changed but I hear frightening tales about a weird new commercial direction they're heading in
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@zersiax I highly recommend Astro if you have some development skills. I've been using it for my own site and I love it.
@frasermclean yeah Astro might be the ticket, I'm mostly a back-end guy but Astro seems to be a good JS gateway drug without getting into the weeds too much
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@menelion hah, I don't need to vibe code PHP if that's what I end up going with, wrote PHP for a living for years. Would actually love to spin up a Laravel project again to see what's changed but I hear frightening tales about a weird new commercial direction they're heading in
@zersiax Oh no no, it's overkill. I didn't spin up Symfony there, as much I like it.
