I just use Wordpress with a plain theme and some builder, e.g. OceanWP + Elementor. Little code needed, decent plugin ecosystem (contact forms, cookie warning, seo stuff), one-click deploy on DigitalOcean, Linode...
Ask HN: Best way to create a landing page?
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Re: Ask HN: Best way to create a landing page?
#42just use www.carrd.co You will get your lander up within half day with all content. Easy to update, easy to learn. Saved a lot of hours and days for me so far. Nothing comes close for me.
I was about to recommend Carrd as well. Also Unbounce.com seems like an obvious choice.
These paid tools help focusing on the content and getting things done.
Re: Ask HN: Best way to create a landing page?
#43I recommend using a static site generator. It brings precisely the features you ask for: - easy SEO optimization, especially compared to SPA - easy content management, GitOps - fast, scales well - free to host via various services (e.g. GitLab and GitHub) Personally, I like Hugo. They have an amazing gallery of free templates: https://themes.gohugo.io/ You might enjoy my blog post on how I host my personal website fo…
I'd like to mention Zola[1], a fast static site generator in a single binary with everything built-in. It is a replacement, improvement to Hugo and is written in rust.
We are using Zola for two static sites.
Re: Ask HN: Best way to create a landing page?
#44I recommend using a static site generator. It brings precisely the features you ask for: - easy SEO optimization, especially compared to SPA - easy content management, GitOps - fast, scales well - free to host via various services (e.g. GitLab and GitHub) Personally, I like Hugo. They have an amazing gallery of free templates: https://themes.gohugo.io/ You might enjoy my blog post on how I host my personal website fo…
Is hugo appropriate for a reasonably technically competent non-programmer?
If you are happy with a given template and only want to make minor modifications (i.e. coloring, logos,...) it should still be a good choice. But the same goes also for e.g. Wordpress.
Re: Ask HN: Best way to create a landing page?
#45I recently dealt with the same issue and was satisfied with prerender spa plugin (https://github.com/chrisvfritz/prerender-spa-plugin).
It enabled me to quickly implement the landing page with Vue and then build it as a static page that I deployed on Netlify. I found it easier and faster to set up than an SSR solution.
There's also a Vue-CLI version of the prerender plugin (https://www.npmjs.com/package/vue-cli-plugin-prerender-spa)
Re: Ask HN: Best way to create a landing page?
#46Can Anyody tell which one is best for my youtube views https://www.stormviews.net or https://www.follower18.com
Re: Ask HN: Best way to create a landing page?
#47Re: Ask HN: Best way to create a landing page?
#48I am using Webflow and highly recommend it.
Re: Ask HN: Best way to create a landing page?
#49https://carrd.co/ is your friend here
Their landing page doesn't work without JS enabled, not even a single line of text. I wouldn't recommend this to build a landing page. If the objective of a landing page is to reach the largest audience possible in a sustainable, fast and efficient way, I wouldn't choose any SPA solution. And I must add that this comes from experience. For few years I did try to go the SPA way, with server side rendering, but the ext…
> I wouldn't recommend this to build a landing page. If the objective of a landing page is to reach the largest audience possible
I dunno. This means you're excluding people who disable JS from your audience. I'm going to stick out my neck a suggest that they're probably very few and very unlikely to spend money on your product (my bias)
> extra work and overheads are just not worth it.
I'd say the other way around, this tool will get you a fast, single page site in shorter time than it will take for you to decide which static site generator to use (I'm being facetious)
Re: Ask HN: Best way to create a landing page?
#50I recommend using a static site generator. It brings precisely the features you ask for: - easy SEO optimization, especially compared to SPA - easy content management, GitOps - fast, scales well - free to host via various services (e.g. GitLab and GitHub) Personally, I like Hugo. They have an amazing gallery of free templates: https://themes.gohugo.io/ You might enjoy my blog post on how I host my personal website fo…
Thanks for this guide! I was able to follow it easily and hope to try it out soon.