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Re: Ask HN: KISS company website: Wordpress, Square Space or roll my own?

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Post by wazanator »

javipas wrote: post #26

I'm surprised to see so much answers leading to use a Static Website Generator. WordPress certainly can be problematic, but I think that there are clear advantages in both cases. You've got to make tradeoffs in both too. I've been hearing a lot about Hugo lately, but my main concern as a blog editor with static website generators is the fact that they are great for, well, static content. If you want to update your si…

What did your pipeline look like? I just push a commit and let the runners handle it for Jekyll.

Keep in mind by using WordPress you are also setting yourself up for possible defacement that seems to break out once a year when someone finds the new big hole in a popular plugin or WordPress itself.

Re: Ask HN: KISS company website: Wordpress, Square Space or roll my own?

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Post by javipas »

thenomad wrote: post #29
javipas wrote: post #26

I'm surprised to see so much answers leading to use a Static Website Generator. WordPress certainly can be problematic, but I think that there are clear advantages in both cases. You've got to make tradeoffs in both too. I've been hearing a lot about Hugo lately, but my main concern as a blog editor with static website generators is the fact that they are great for, well, static content. If you want to update your si…

I'm using Hugo currently on a site with tens of thousands of pages - it was converted from a Wordpress site which was updated multiple times a day for about 4 years. Compilation time is around a minute. It's really not a big deal.

That's great. Time to test Hugo, it seems. Thanks ;)

Re: Ask HN: KISS company website: Wordpress, Square Space or roll my own?

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Post by metachris »

rwieruch wrote: post #13

If you want to outsource it, I can agree that the easiest way is to provide a simple interface for the other party. That's where a CMS like Wordpress would make sense. On the other hand, if you want to have more control in the long term, I can recommend to use Hugo [0] as a static website generator. They have plenty of themes [1] to choose from. You can still adjust it with basic knowledge in HTML/CSS. Afterwards you…

I second Hugo as a static website generator. I've been using Jekyll for a long time, but it is just too slow for a nice workflow, especially as the site/blog grows to more than a handful of pages.

Hugo is blazingly fast, has a very active community and has all the features you need. Also it's just a single binary and very easy to use.

You could use a CI system like Travis CI or Gitlab CI to automatically build the site and deploy it to a preview website on pushes.

Re: Ask HN: KISS company website: Wordpress, Square Space or roll my own?

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Post by losdos »

mcat wrote: post #16
rwieruch wrote: post #13

If you want to outsource it, I can agree that the easiest way is to provide a simple interface for the other party. That's where a CMS like Wordpress would make sense. On the other hand, if you want to have more control in the long term, I can recommend to use Hugo [0] as a static website generator. They have plenty of themes [1] to choose from. You can still adjust it with basic knowledge in HTML/CSS. Afterwards you…

We're built www.takeshape.io for this exact use case. Quick way to get your static site up and running with a CMS backend. If you're interested I can put you into the beta program.

Me too? 3rd times the charm?

Re: Ask HN: KISS company website: Wordpress, Square Space or roll my own?

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Post by ccajas »

snowwrestler wrote: post #20

A host who specializes in Wordpress can take a lot of the sting out managing it (patching, caching, security, etc). I'm in the process of moving a bunch of WP sites off of dedicated hosting for this exact reason. So far the best options look like WPEngine, Wordpress.com, or Pantheon. I've also worked with Squarespace and would caution that developers can find it to be frustrating--requires a lot of hovering and click…

SquareSpace can feel nice for people setting up a brand new site. Problem I found is that I had to migrate a site away from their old host into something more user-friendly, but most of the SquareSpace templates looked nothing like the corporate site and at the same time too similar to each other.

The company wanted no changed to be done to the design, so it did take time eventually, but just wrestling a lot with its grid layout and CSS hacks to get it looking just right with no visual bugs.

If I could do it again, I'd use Wordpress.org with BeaverBuilder. BB takes a lot of the drag-and-drop functionality of SquareSpace and puts it into your Wordpress site.

Re: Ask HN: KISS company website: Wordpress, Square Space or roll my own?

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Post by danieka »

rwieruch wrote: post #13

If you want to outsource it, I can agree that the easiest way is to provide a simple interface for the other party. That's where a CMS like Wordpress would make sense. On the other hand, if you want to have more control in the long term, I can recommend to use Hugo [0] as a static website generator. They have plenty of themes [1] to choose from. You can still adjust it with basic knowledge in HTML/CSS. Afterwards you…

For static pages Amazon is a great hosting alternative. Use S3 + CloudFront for cheap/free hosting that's infinitely scalable. Managing HTTPS is simple as well with Amazon's Certificate Manager. When I set up my blog I used this instruction: https://www.davidbaumgold.com/tutorials/host-static-site-aws...
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