i'm struggling. i'd like to build a very simple website for a client. i could just build it with html+css in a couple of days, but she wants to update the content every now and then.
it's more than "just text" where i could use markdown for the content. there are some special components for blockquotes, a timeline, pricing table, etc. required.
usually i like my contentful+astro setup, but for this project it feels like an overkill (because time and budget are limited).
@lara_amalia maybe check out @mattrbld —it shouldn’t be too different to configure from something like Contentful. I built it to abstract away most of the whole deal around committing to Git after making changes for non-technical users, but that’s still what it does, just from the browser, so you as a developer don’t miss out on any features and stay in control. 😊
They all work in a similar way, editing git repos that trigger a static deploy. Would recommend breaking down the content into small data files so you can incorporate them into the CMS easily
@lara_amalia A custom Wordpress theme, in its most minimal form, lets you just write HTML and CSS and put a couple of functions like the_title() and the_content() in the places where you would expect.
I do this when I'm not trying to make a site that is "Wordpressy" (using all its functions) but more like my HTML with a CMS attached to the "text" section.
@lara_amalia Probably! There's a bit of a lack of a middle ground once you need (user) editing, as users generally expect that to mean web login, not "edit these Markdown files and something something git" that most dev-focused stuff supports
@lara_amalia there used to be a category of very small and simple site editing php+JS tools which did not have a backend but offered site editing functionality as wysiwyg editor right on the site. I don’t know if something like this still exists but it would be the right thing for the job.
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