Submitted 2 days ago by pirat@lemmy.ml to selfhosted@lemmy.world
Looking to do a small personal website that will keep folx up-to-date on new music releases I put out, events I’m hosting, and random ramblings.
Curious as to what options are out there - free and easy to use would be ideal set up.
seamonkey’s a direct descendant of netscape communicator and still includes a wysiwyg editor. it’s pretty good for basic stuff.
Ghost or Nextra could be options they use markdown for content.
Dreamweaver. ;)
what year is it?!?
If you’re on macOS, there’s blocs. It seems to pop up on BundleHunt for a fraction of their normal price every once in a while.
Then, there’s RapidWeaver Elements - which just went into Early Access.
However, you might want to evaluate whether a static site generator or some small CMS like GRAV can work for you.
GRAV is surprisingly easy, compared to wordpress
I migrated from WordPress to Grav and love it. If you know markdown Grav is easy, efficient and FAST.
Pick one.
🤣 free, I’m willing to put in a little leg work
selfhosting Ghost
If you want to host it on your own webserver, Wordpress is best answer. There is no CMS that will really compare to WP for ease of set up and configuration if you are hosting yourself. WP is also portable so if you do decide to move it to a different host you can port the whole site.
If you don’t mind someone else hosting, Wix, Weebly, Duda or Squarespace are very simple systems that can get a site up for you quickly and looking decent. But you cannot move the site to a new host, you are required to stay within their environments.
I find Drupal just as easy to set up as wordpress. Most shared web hosts have a script to do everything for you, including installing updates. In fact, I find Drupal’s administration more logical and easier to manage. (I may be biased, since I spent 10 years developing Drupal sites.)
The other advantage is that, unlike WordPress, Drupal themes and plugins (the Drupal term is “modules”) are almost all open source and free. I find that WordPress has lots of plugins that give you the basic version for free, but then want to upsell you to a paid version.
Totally forgot about Drupal and Joomla for CMSs. Its been along time for me since I have worked on a Drupal site, but I do remember it being pretty easy to pick up.
What’s wrong with WordPress?
Very many things!
Try Ghost.
At least WP is free, Ghost is as “free” until you find out its only useful with the rest of the payed platform. editorjs.io is much better in that sense.
Nothing I suppose - I just like having options
If you want to get the job (of publishing a blog) done fast, and move on, then use WP. If you want to mess around probably look at editorjs.io.
I've never actually used it, but Faircamp caught my eye a while ago. https://simonrepp.com/faircamp/
I'm not sure if you can create a blog with it -- it might only be for showcasing your music, no text posts. It definitely looks nice, though.
I’ve messed around with this a bit and it’s really fun. Reminded me of making dumb “websites” in elementary school. hotglue.me/how
Where do you house these music releases? I’m always down to listen to new tunes. Oh, and tho I’ve never run Ghost, I hear a lot of great things about it. Might be something to look into.
I’ve got it hosted on bandcamp, rn my URL redirects to bandcamp. The project is Aμq and I know it’s not everyone’s cuppa.
and I know it’s not everyone’s cuppa
I enjoy all manifestations of the melodic muse.
editorjs.io
foggy@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Use WordPress. It’s by far the most used content management platform, so if you’re a beginner, you’ll find the most resources. It’s also free and open source.
Then you can, if you want to make it even easier, use a page builder like Elementor or Divi or something. Or not.
There’s also Wix for very simple page builds.
merde@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
no, thanks
Pika@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
chiming in, even excluding self host, I wouldn’t recommend wix, their sites are so bloated and take forever for me to load, and I’ve had Firefox just straight refuse to load pages before that are wix run.
foggy@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I agree, I only include it as a “woah this WordPress stuff is confusing!” lower barrier to entry.
Try WordPress first. If they’re absolutely stuck, wix is a lot more beginner friendly. But yes, beware of the downsides to having your hand held.