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What's the laziest way to create a website that looks really nice and is maintainable? (programming.dev)
submitted 4 days ago by moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 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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[–] wabasso@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So great, signed your guestbook!

Random question, why is index.html just a pointer to home.html?

[–] yogurtwrong@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago

Oh I completely forgot about this

I was halfway through designing a fake CDE-styled login page, then I failed to fit it in mobile browsers and then I got distracted.

The file is still sitting there https://aesistril.com/login.html

So initially, this login.html was the homepage and home.html was to be reached by clicking a button on this page.

When I scratched the login page idea, I just renamed index.html -> login.html and then linked home.html -> index.html

Well I could've just renamed home.html but I am way too UNIX-headed for that. Lets say its a symbolic link so I could change the homepage easily in the future