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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 pidgeon_lover »

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…

Frontmatter CMS is a VSCodium plugin that works as a somewhat user-friendly CMS for the likes of Hugo. https://frontmatter.codes/

I set it up for my brother to run his static blog, and it's quite good if you like that kind of thing. There are some quirks where it gets confused if you rename mycoolarticle.md, so I still prefer using notepad++ and git and CLI for mine.

Re: Free static site generator for small restaurants and cafes

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Post by pif »

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

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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…

If you can't afford $20 per month, you are not in business.

Re: Free static site generator for small restaurants and cafes

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Post by pif »

lioeters wrote: post #84
BrenBarn wrote: post #81

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640K ought to be enough for anybody.

I bet that's part of the reason why microcontrollers, embedded programming, and retro computing are all popular hobbies these days. A return to a simpler time, when programs are compiled to a few kilobytes and run as fast as the hardware allows. Graphics? Unicode? Who needs 'em, just a stream of ASCII and integers for me thanks.

Unicode is a must in a human facing application, even in those countries where English is spoken by the majority of people.

Re: Free static site generator for small restaurants and cafes

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Post by ChrisRR »

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.

As an embdded engineer I'm always disappointed at how much processing power and RAM is needed just to display websites with just images and text. The vast majority of them do not need javascript

Re: Free static site generator for small restaurants and cafes

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Post by m-p-3 »

miladyincontrol wrote: post #15
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…

A webapp or gui WYSIWYG static generator with basic git support abstracted away would go far for many. Just let it push to some private repo which cloudflare pages or similar would deploy off of. It really feels like the only part of a non-static site most want is an editor. I absolutely loathe the matter but I do see why some restaurants only maintain a facebook page for their online presence.

Some don't even bother, and the only thing they update (when they remember about it) is their business hours on Google Maps.

Re: Free static site generator for small restaurants and cafes

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Post by IAmBroom »

gnz11 wrote: post #90
davidmurphy wrote: post #87

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nope, been there as an entrepreneur where you have NO available funds when the Squarespace renewal hits. It's a lot.

Let's be honest -- at that point you don't have a business anymore and aren't an "entrepreneur".

Let's be more honest: if the power is on, the sheriff isn't locking your doors, but customers can't reach your web presence, the problem isn't really "the entrepreneur".

Re: Free static site generator for small restaurants and cafes

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Post by IAmBroom »

BrenBarn wrote: post #81
andai wrote: post #65

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Nobody should need 60 million lines of code (Linux Kernel 30M + Chromium 30M) to render some text and images ;)

640K ought to be enough for anybody.

640K is enough to read a menu.

Re: Free static site generator for small restaurants and cafes

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Post by IAmBroom »

foogazi wrote: post #64
pastel8739 wrote: post #58

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I vastly prefer looking at a PDF menu over an HTML one nearly all the time. PDFs are usually nicely formatted, and I don’t mind zooming and panning to see everything. HTML is frequently terribly formatted, interspersed with ads, slow, etc

> HTML is frequently terribly formatted, interspersed with ads, slow, etc You can put ads into terribly formatted PDFs too

Yes, and you can strap jet engines onto horses at the race track.

No one does either of those, IRL.

Re: Free static site generator for small restaurants and cafes

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Post by WorldMaker »

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…

There are at least a few CMS editors for static sites intended for non-technical/less-technical users. They often still require someone technical to setup (config files and OAuth connections to GitHub, for example) but then provide an experience somewhat like what one would expect from the WordPress Admin Page.

Two examples I've briefly worked with:

Decap CMS (formerly Netlify CMS): https://decapcms.org/

Lume CMS: https://lume.land/cms/

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