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Free static site generator for small restaurants and cafes

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Re: Free static site generator for small restaurants and cafes

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Post by jarofgreen »

SchemaLoad wrote: post #14

It's pretty sad how there doesn't seem to be any decent free options for websites which are easy to use. Squarespace and such cost a fortune which isn't worth it if you aren't trying to run a full ecommerce site. Plenty of services offer free hosting of static content but don't have any way a normal person can use them. Having to use a static site generator is too hard for non programmers. I'm just surprised we haven…

> I'm just surprised we haven't seem some app that can act like a wordpress admin page but generating a static output you can host for free or very cheap somewhere.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44391535

(I'm not affiliated with it)

Re: Free static site generator for small restaurants and cafes

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Post by fullstacking »

bhelkey wrote: post #16

A couple of things: First, the site generator is MIT licensed but I don't see a link to the license. If someone forks this generator, would they be in compliance with MIT license requirements? Second, the images linked in this site are quite nice. I can imagine someone choosing to use some of them as is. Are they yours to share? Third, it appears that you are targeting non-developers. I would think about how to make…

First: https://github.com/Local-Cafe/localcafe-lite/blob/main/LICEN...

Second: pixabay

Third: Yeah that's the challenge I'm working on at the moment. Thanks for the feed back.

I do plan on cleaning up the repo so that you are not starting with the example and also plan on making a small tutorial video to show how much effort it takes to setup.

Re: Free static site generator for small restaurants and cafes

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Post by ErroneousBosh »

davisr wrote: post #2

No one should need JS to see the soups when that could be handled perfectly fine with CSS. I wish restaurants would just make their homepage a PDF of the menu.

PDF is an enormous pain in the tits to view on a phone and has significant accessibility issues for people using assistive technologies.

It's not even about blind people. People with ADHD or dyslexia use assistive technology, which frequently makes an absolute horlicks of interpreting PDF. It's one of the reasons I'm trying to move a lot of documentation at work away from PDF and onto just straight HTML.

Plain old HTML, with thin CSS on it to make it not be black-and-white Times New Roman. Kicking it oldschool.

Re: Free static site generator for small restaurants and cafes

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Post by victorbjorklund »

davisr wrote: post #2

No one should need JS to see the soups when that could be handled perfectly fine with CSS. I wish restaurants would just make their homepage a PDF of the menu.

PDF:s are not great on mobile. And you can’t easily translate them (I often translate restaurant menus when they are on a website with just 2 clicks)

Re: Free static site generator for small restaurants and cafes

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Post by fckgw »

SchemaLoad wrote: post #14

It's pretty sad how there doesn't seem to be any decent free options for websites which are easy to use. Squarespace and such cost a fortune which isn't worth it if you aren't trying to run a full ecommerce site. Plenty of services offer free hosting of static content but don't have any way a normal person can use them. Having to use a static site generator is too hard for non programmers. I'm just surprised we haven…

Squarespace is like $20/mo for a basic site promoting your Brick and Mortar business. That includes domain, hosting, and a template/CMS. It's not that pricey.

Re: Free static site generator for small restaurants and cafes

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Post by tomp »

SchemaLoad wrote: post #14

It's pretty sad how there doesn't seem to be any decent free options for websites which are easy to use. Squarespace and such cost a fortune which isn't worth it if you aren't trying to run a full ecommerce site. Plenty of services offer free hosting of static content but don't have any way a normal person can use them. Having to use a static site generator is too hard for non programmers. I'm just surprised we haven…

how about something like feather.so? publish a website / blog from your Notion...

haven't used it, but looks like a great idea!

Re: Free static site generator for small restaurants and cafes

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Post by SchemaLoad »

fckgw wrote: post #25
SchemaLoad wrote: post #14

It's pretty sad how there doesn't seem to be any decent free options for websites which are easy to use. Squarespace and such cost a fortune which isn't worth it if you aren't trying to run a full ecommerce site. Plenty of services offer free hosting of static content but don't have any way a normal person can use them. Having to use a static site generator is too hard for non programmers. I'm just surprised we haven…

Squarespace is like $20/mo for a basic site promoting your Brick and Mortar business. That includes domain, hosting, and a template/CMS. It's not that pricey.

It's not pricey if you are a serious business making good money. It's a huge price if you are say a part time artist just wanting somewhere to store a price list, gallery and contact form.

I'm just surprised there is nothing that fills the gap between github pages and a full hosted solution with a ton of junk you don't need. All it really needs is maybe a locally running app that can handle generating the static pages and uploading them for you.

Re: Free static site generator for small restaurants and cafes

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Post by bryanhogan »

SchemaLoad wrote: post #27
fckgw wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Squarespace is like $20/mo for a basic site promoting your Brick and Mortar business. That includes domain, hosting, and a template/CMS. It's not that pricey.

It's not pricey if you are a serious business making good money. It's a huge price if you are say a part time artist just wanting somewhere to store a price list, gallery and contact form. I'm just surprised there is nothing that fills the gap between github pages and a full hosted solution with a ton of junk you don't need. All it really needs is maybe a locally running app that can handle generating the static page…

The barrier to create a website using Astro + a Template + telling an LLM like Gemini what you want is very low nowadays. So still, if you work with code some technical knowledge is required, but it will only get easier, probably.

Re: Free static site generator for small restaurants and cafes

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Post by bryanhogan »

dugmartin wrote: post #4
davisr wrote: post #2

No one should need JS to see the soups when that could be handled perfectly fine with CSS. I wish restaurants would just make their homepage a PDF of the menu.

I agree. There are lots of free AstroJS themes for restaurants that generate static html that you can host somewhere like Firebase hosting for free. - https://astro.build/themes/details/astropie/ - https://astro.build/themes/details/astrorante/ - https://astro.build/themes/details/tastyyy-restaurant-websit...

I was going to recommend the same! Astro + Astro theme + an LLM will get you very far these days.

Re: Free static site generator for small restaurants and cafes

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Post by burningChrome »

dugmartin wrote: post #4
davisr wrote: post #2

No one should need JS to see the soups when that could be handled perfectly fine with CSS. I wish restaurants would just make their homepage a PDF of the menu.

I agree. There are lots of free AstroJS themes for restaurants that generate static html that you can host somewhere like Firebase hosting for free. - https://astro.build/themes/details/astropie/ - https://astro.build/themes/details/astrorante/ - https://astro.build/themes/details/tastyyy-restaurant-websit...

All of my static sites that I've built lately have been done on Netlify. Super easy to hook up to Github and the form handling is a breeze. I've known Mathias going back to when he was personally answering emails and promoting JAMSTACK so you can say I'm a bit biased. lol

Netlify is a great company that I'll always support.

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