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- https://www.squarespace.com/ (the one with sponsored segments in every YouTube video)
- https://www.ionos.com/websites/website-builder. IONOS is a domain registrar, most other domain registrars (at least namecheap) offer website builders as well.
The keyword is "WYSIWYG". These site builders are targeted for non-tech-savvy people who want an easy solution, they include publishing and not a single line of code or terminal is required.
(Edited to add link because I accidentally hit send...)
I’ve extracted out the GitHub fetching into a small npm package: https://github.com/cool-calm/collected-press/tree/main/packa...
And here’s my home page using this approach. The code needs to be cleaned up and I’m still working out the best strategy for caching (Cloudflare KV has been disappointing), but I’m happy with this as a model. https://github.com/RoyalIcing/RoyalIcing
I haven't used it, but seems in line with these goals.
I write web server creation tools, so I'm somewhat familiar with this space. I'm not sure I'd recommend shared hosting setups. If you're going that route then you might as well host on WordPress.com or squarespace or whatever. The logical place to serve is of course from your home machine. These days there are lots of users with good access, good enough to serve. Assuming you don't have a crappy ISP that blocks incom…
So arguing for making independent websites easier is really arguing for another level of granularity in the tradeoffs between “social media presence” and “Wordpress”. And I guess I’m not really sold that that’s all that helpful. The loss of discoverability is a step function you hit the moment you go independent, which means that for the vast majority of cases, there’s going to be a “dead zone” of value where having slightly more control just isn’t worth it. I’m just not sure that that dead zone doesn’t end pretty close to where the current tools are.
Being able to host a website just by putting files in a certain folder already present with a special icon was a magical feature for my then girlfriend.
I write web server creation tools, so I'm somewhat familiar with this space. I'm not sure I'd recommend shared hosting setups. If you're going that route then you might as well host on WordPress.com or squarespace or whatever. The logical place to serve is of course from your home machine. These days there are lots of users with good access, good enough to serve. Assuming you don't have a crappy ISP that blocks incom…