In-reply-to » Can anyone recommend a website builder for dummies? Something my wife could use or anyone not in IT? Something that you can easily export and publish as a static site anywhere? 🤔 I guess it has to be easy to use, WYSIWIG in nature and having some 3rd-party integrations might be nice like Squire for taking payments, etc.

Just like @mckinley@twtxt.net, I never found anything that I was remotely happy with. If the use case at hand diverges just the tiniest bit from what this thing was designed for, you’re just screwed. I always ended up throwing the CMS away and writing my own HTML and CSS, so I’m with @adi@twtxt.net. In the long run it’s so much simpler. 10-20 years ago I taught a casual aquaintance the basics of HTML in a bunch of lessons for her new job. She was not in IT at all, so it can work with patience and a will to learn.

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