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What's the laziest way to create a website that looks really nice and is maintainable? (programming.dev)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Tldr we want a static website that will last a long time and also look pretty nice.

Right now, we have a wordpress website. It looks very nice. It also have 4 extensions that aren't configured to auto update. Also whenever I try to make changes to the website they don't apply because the website was configured via the extensions and I hate it.

I want a static site of some kind. It's simple to self host or host anywhere, and it's also simple to secure and keep maintained for a long time.

I am currently looking at static site generators, like quarto, or docusaurus

However, they are difficult to theme to the "niceness" that I want, and their nature results in these somewhat fixed output formats. Like, it is somewhat difficult and annoying to put images anywhere I want them and etc.

Is there like a fixed WYSIWYG html editor? Something between designing a website from scratch and a static site generator. Or is there a way to finagle static site generators to be more flexible than blogs or documentation sites?

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[–] 16 points 9 months ago (1 child)

You dont say what kind of website it is, just not blog or documentation style.

But SSGs can be skinned a bunch if different ways, and have been set up for a bunch of different purposes.

https://github.com/myles/awesome-static-generators

I have been using Zola for myself lately, its less blog post and more article oriented, but still doc heavy. I like the duckquill theme (with... More than a few changes, but still), which I doubt fits what you want. For comparison, here is duckquill: https://duckquill.daudix.one/

But you may like the Portio theme: https://quentin-rodriguez.github.io/portio-zola/

If you don't need to update often though, I think some basic html could be the way to go rather than using an ssg.

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