Comment on looking for lightweight ghost blog alternative
video@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Being that you are 20 years in the blog space, you may not like my answer.
I had a similar experience as you. I was using ghost blog. I thought it was going to make having a blog so much easier. It didn’t.
Anyways, I looked and looked and tried a few and nothing felt right.
I settled on learning HTML and CSS using docker ngnx server to dish out my index page.
Making everything the way you want it is so much more pleasing than the cookie cuter blog platforms. Learning everything took a few days of studying and watching YouTube videos. But eventually you pick up enough to online search your way out of something you may not have learned or forgot.
This makes having a blog so basic and and small of a program and storage space. Super lightweight.
Urist@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
simon574@feddit.org 3 days ago
That’s a very refreshing take and it reminds me of a simpler time, before “Web 2.0”. I can do HTML/CSS no problem, I actually teach a web development course in high school. For my own blog it might be too much of a distraction though, I really want to focus on the content.
But I agree, building a website from scratch can be very rewarding :)