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There are now several competing nice services, that give you and your customer a UI to edit your static site with a webtool. https://cloudcannon.com / https://forestry.io/ / https://www.siteleaf.com/ With all of them you can set up nice content type templates and get your client to put structured content. edit: formatting
I use a static site generator for my blog - but as I only post once or twice a year, I generally find I'm fixing broken static site generation about as often as I'm writing a blog post. Using a mac? I hope you've got xcode installed to give you command line tools. No, you can't get that to work without logging into your Apple account. Right, now just install these tools using homebrew. Oh, homebrew's giving some git…
Obviously, bad SSG are bad, but not all of them are: any SSG worth recommending to the general public in exchange for money (i.e. recommending to your customers) is one that doesn't rely on the user first making sure their "tech stack" is set up properly: it just comes with a normal installer (even if that "installer" takes advantage of the OS it's running on to grab all the dependencies it needs for itself and uses a preinstalled scripting language to run the system under the hood).
And of course typically these still have a "this project is open source, click here for our git repo!" link that normal users will NEVER use, but power users are drawn to like moths to a flame. Their experience, however, is not what you're going to sell your customers =)
There are now several competing nice services, that give you and your customer a UI to edit your static site with a webtool. https://cloudcannon.com / https://forestry.io/ / https://www.siteleaf.com/ With all of them you can set up nice content type templates and get your client to put structured content. edit: formatting
However I'm still waiting for the right client project to come along to use it with as it's rare for someone to need a custom-built site and also the fairly limited features of a static cms.
Usually if they want a simple site something like Squarespace will be the quickest and cheapest option, whereas if they have any complex requirements, like migrations or integrations with other platforms, then an open source cms framework like Drupal is often a better starting point.
I use a static site generator for my blog - but as I only post once or twice a year, I generally find I'm fixing broken static site generation about as often as I'm writing a blog post. Using a mac? I hope you've got xcode installed to give you command line tools. No, you can't get that to work without logging into your Apple account. Right, now just install these tools using homebrew. Oh, homebrew's giving some git…
There's options like Netlify to use as CMS: https://github.com/netlify/netlify-cms
Hugo will run anywhere.
In Linux you don't need to install the distro's packaged version; source is where you should go.
There is an added difficulty, but it's not as painful as you make it seem.
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The problem is that updating plugins very often breaks stuff.
I've been running a heavily customized WordPress with literally dozens of plugins since 2005 and that has most definitely not been my experience.
Another one was the embeded media player which just disappeared. That was somehow related to shortcodes.
There are now several competing nice services, that give you and your customer a UI to edit your static site with a webtool. https://cloudcannon.com / https://forestry.io/ / https://www.siteleaf.com/ With all of them you can set up nice content type templates and get your client to put structured content. edit: formatting
Yes. I built a statically generated site to a Fortune 50 company. Not a microsite either, but one that was highly visible.
Using which site generator?
Depends on the use case. For a general site that's going to be maintained by a non-technical audience? Absolutely not. They need a WYSIWYG editor instead of markdown. "Deploy" for them has to be a "publish" button. Keep it simple with a self-updating WordPress on WPEngine or similar. For API documentation sites, I use Jekyll and Slate all the time. They're going to be maintained by developers so markdown is easy. Ver…