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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
#42No 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.
Remember during Covid where every restaurant's menu was a QR code on the table that linked to a PDF in S3?
Re: Free static site generator for small restaurants and cafes
#43No 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.
No one should need PDFs to see the soups when they can be handled perfectly fine with CSS scoped to print and save to PDF....
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Re: Free static site generator for small restaurants and cafes
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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.
I used to be all in on Jekyll. Now all I use is Astro + Tailwind + Claude, and it’s magic. No need for a theme with this combination.
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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…
Macs used to come with iWeb. https://www.apple.com/welcomescreen/ilife/iweb-3/ These days you can buy paid software to do this: - $110 https://blocsapp.com - $90 https://realmacsoftware.com/rapidweaver-classic/ - $80 https://sitely.app - $30 https://bootstrapstudio.io - $0 https://www.silex.me - $0 https://wordpress.org/plugins/simply-static/ - $0 until recently, https://web.archive.org/web/20240410200646/https://gra…
iWeb was an utter monstrosity. Worse than MS Front Page, which I didn't think was possible.
Re: Free static site generator for small restaurants and cafes
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
No one is browsing the internet without JS today (within margin of error). Whether or not this "should" be the case, it is.
This is the wrong way of looking at it. Making a website's basic functionality work without JS isn't just for the random users who switch off their browser's JS runtime. It's also for the people who have a random network dropout or slowdown on a random file (in this case a JS file).
> It's also for the people who have a random network dropout or slowdown on a random file (in this case a JS file).
Does that really apply when the javascript is only ~2kb?
Re: Free static site generator for small restaurants and cafes
#47I'm not seeing anything very specific in the code - feels like this could be just another Jekyll theme and still work the same. There's some custom front-matter in markdown files, but change that to regular YAML and it will just work.
There is some code for looking up the geo lat/log of locations at compile. not sure how you would do that. But yeah outside of that your are mostly correct.
I used elixir because thats what I know and love so it was mostly just a personal choice rather than a technical one.
Re: Free static site generator for small restaurants and cafes
#48It'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)
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Re: Free static site generator for small restaurants and cafes
#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
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Re: Free static site generator for small restaurants and cafes
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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)
Translating anything that renders on my screen is the same two clicks to open an LLM with the screen contents. I expect that will become an increasingly universal experience as LLM features get shoved into every nook and cranny of tech.
There's been a translate button for years which hooks deep into every nook and cranny of the website's HTML. It works great, it's built in and many restaurants even advertise it for tourists, because it's a zero-effort translation of their existing menu. Plus, it's low-data when you're inside a 1-bar basement restaurant.
Using an LLM to translate the visible part of a PDF on a mobile... seems like the worst possible solution to the problem.