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Re: Ask HN: Freelance website builders/maintainers, what's in your 2024 toolkit?

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Post by replwoacause »

ksimon wrote: post #26

Hi Pete, For those of your clients who requested website overhauls, they'll probably prefer to keep their new websites on the same location, as their own hosting, usually it's a cPanel hosting account, like HostGator or GoDaddy, so WordPress is a first choice, if you (and they?) enjoy using it. But as you mentioned they're local businesses, with limited budget and needs for basic web presence, they would probably lov…

Looks nice. First thing I wanted to try was setting up a dynamic source of content (e.g. a table that repeats its rows from a data source I specify) but I couldn't figure out how. How can I include dynamic content in my site using external data sources like a REST api?

Re: Ask HN: Freelance website builders/maintainers, what's in your 2024 toolkit?

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Post by replwoacause »

thedangler wrote: post #46

I use Sytescope.com for all my clients. We build all their pages in a fraction of the time and if they feel like taking the wheel for updates, they are more than welcome to. 99% of the time there isn't this service can't do.

How do I make blocks (e.g tables, lists, ing src, etc) and other various parts of my page use a dynamic source of data from an external REST api? Or would that use case fall into the 1%?

Re: Ask HN: Freelance website builders/maintainers, what's in your 2024 toolkit?

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Post by tomwojcik »

Slightly off topic. I have been working with Django for about 7 years now. Whenever I'm looking for a new contract, I first filter by Django, as it's just a pleasure to work with. Funny how many other ppl share similar exp in this discussion, yet today is the day of 'who's hiring' and Django is mentioned only twice so far.

Re: Ask HN: Freelance website builders/maintainers, what's in your 2024 toolkit?

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Post by Cheezmeister »

p2hari wrote: post #11

As you might know not one tool fits all, I still have strong preferences for the following. It helps me get going faster and get things done right first time and helps in ease of maintenance. Language: Typescript. Frontend Framework: Astrojs [1] or qwik [2] Frontend Library: React if it requires 3d and other frame-motion like animations, else will not use any frontend library or might throw solidjs if required for so…

> VS code with neovim

Do you mean VS code with a plugin that makes it look and feel like neovim, or is there a way to make both clients edit the same buffer at the same time?

Re: Ask HN: Freelance website builders/maintainers, what's in your 2024 toolkit?

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Post by oooyay »

Django Ninja and SvelteKit is my new go-to. I use Go for particularly data intensive applications and tooling. Skeleton UI and Flowbite-Svelte for UI components. Obviously Tailwind given the former. I tend to generate SDKs for my frontends using OpenAPI so generally I'm also using OpenAPI Generator CLI. If there's a need for desktop app I use Wails.io with most of the above stack.

The value that I sell for my products is that they focus on pragmatism and long term maintainability. Even if you don't use me for the next feature, this project will still be able to be worked on by anyone competent you hire.

Re: Ask HN: Freelance website builders/maintainers, what's in your 2024 toolkit?

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Post by 6510 »

aosaigh wrote: post #41

Some of the suggestions in this thread are completely nuts. If you are building a traditional marketing website for a client, you're doing your client a disservice if you don't use a CMS or hosted platform like Wordpress, Squarespace, Webflow, Shopify etc. You should be delivering something to them that it easy to maintain and document. If they need to get somebody in to help in 5 years, they shouldn't need to find a…

Here!

https://wpengine.com/support/sync-new-post-and-pages/#Import...

I had to scroll up a bit to see the heading. They couldn't figure out how to jump to the #anchor apparently no one is actually looking at the new user experience. This wouldn't happen to me. It just wouldn't.

https://5help.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/204965388-Im....

I would not make links like: 5help.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/204965388-Importing-Blogger-or-WordPress-blog-posts#:~:text=Log%20into%20your%20Squarespace%205%20site.%20In%20the,URL%20that%20visitors%20use%20to%20visit%20that%20blog. but there it is. Ready for consumption.

https://webflow.com/updates/csv-import

Seems good enough if you can find the page.

https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/products/import-export/im...

Along with a long list of expensive plugins they will need if they want to keep the custom functionality. It will lack some thing but have other things that hopefully somewhat make up for it.

One should also have a new terms of service and user agreement ready in case of migration.

You see? If you prepare for it clients can downgrade whenever they like and everything becomes a nail.

Re: Ask HN: Freelance website builders/maintainers, what's in your 2024 toolkit?

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Post by volkandkaya »

If this is for landing pages and marketing sites going to shill my own product Versoly.com

- Leverages web dev best practices (Tailwind, mobile first, tiny open source packages for extra features)

- Bootstrapped and profitable (I won't randomly increase prices, if anything with more customers would like to lower or add more features)

- Features built for freelancers/agencies such as saving components that can be reused across client projects

- Flexible CMS based on Vue syntax (one of the easiest ways to extend HTML)

Re: Ask HN: Freelance website builders/maintainers, what's in your 2024 toolkit?

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Post by p2hari »

Cheezmeister wrote: post #75
p2hari wrote: post #11

As you might know not one tool fits all, I still have strong preferences for the following. It helps me get going faster and get things done right first time and helps in ease of maintenance. Language: Typescript. Frontend Framework: Astrojs [1] or qwik [2] Frontend Library: React if it requires 3d and other frame-motion like animations, else will not use any frontend library or might throw solidjs if required for so…

> VS code with neovim Do you mean VS code with a plugin that makes it look and feel like neovim, or is there a way to make both clients edit the same buffer at the same time?

Sorry for not being clear. It is a plugin with VS code.

Re: Ask HN: Freelance website builders/maintainers, what's in your 2024 toolkit?

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Post by aosaigh »

6510 wrote: post #77
aosaigh wrote: post #41

Some of the suggestions in this thread are completely nuts. If you are building a traditional marketing website for a client, you're doing your client a disservice if you don't use a CMS or hosted platform like Wordpress, Squarespace, Webflow, Shopify etc. You should be delivering something to them that it easy to maintain and document. If they need to get somebody in to help in 5 years, they shouldn't need to find a…

Here! https://wpengine.com/support/sync-new-post-and-pages/#Import... I had to scroll up a bit to see the heading. They couldn't figure out how to jump to the #anchor apparently no one is actually looking at the new user experience. This wouldn't happen to me. It just wouldn't. https://5help.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/204965388-Im... . I would not make links like: 5help.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/204965…

I don’t see? What point is being made here?
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