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What's the laziest way to create a website that looks really nice and is maintainable? (programming.dev)

submitted 5 months ago by moonpiedumplings@programming.dev to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Tldr we want a static website that will last a long time and also look pretty nice.

Right now, we have a wordpress website. It looks very nice. It also have 4 extensions that aren't configured to auto update. Also whenever I try to make changes to the website they don't apply because the website was configured via the extensions and I hate it.

I want a static site of some kind. It's simple to self host or host anywhere, and it's also simple to secure and keep maintained for a long time.

I am currently looking at static site generators, like quarto, or docusaurus

However, they are difficult to theme to the "niceness" that I want, and their nature results in these somewhat fixed output formats. Like, it is somewhat difficult and annoying to put images anywhere I want them and etc.

Is there like a fixed WYSIWYG html editor? Something between designing a website from scratch and a static site generator. Or is there a way to finagle static site generators to be more flexible than blogs or documentation sites?

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[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You have several conflicting needs there. Why not just continue using Wordpress but without the weird extensions?

[–] moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Because the extensions replaced wordpress' sitebuilder/editor. If I were to get rid of the extensions I would basically have to recreate the site anyways so I might as well switch away from wordpress.

[–] SirHaxalot@nord.red 4 points 5 months ago

You could try a Wordpress static generator extension like SimplyStatic. Then you’d be able to export your existing site to static files but it might not work properly with some extensions.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 4 points 5 months ago

I want a static site of some kind. It’s simple to self host or host anywhere, and it’s also simple to secure and keep maintained for a long time.

I am currently looking at static site generators, like quarto, or docusaurus

However, they are difficult to theme to the “niceness” that I want, and their nature results in these somewhat fixed output formats. Like, it is somewhat difficult and annoying to put images anywhere I want them and etc.

Is there like a fixed WYSIWYG html editor? Something between designing a website from scratch and a static site generator.

Wordpress meets almost all of these requirements. It's not static pages, but if you don't use weird extensions it's perfectly simple, secure, maintainable, WYSIWYG, and it falls exactly between from-scratch and a static site generator. Plenty of themes you can use and tweak in a modular fashion.

Although I'm pretty sure there are extensions that'll render to static pages if you want. Certainly there are caching extensions that do almost the same thing.

Generally I'd recommend against Wordpress due to how shitty Automattic is being to the community, but it sounds like it fits your needs. Maybe Drupal as an alternatice.