@sycarion
It's great to hear about people using Publii.
I'm hoping to use it to publish websites, including imported WordPress websites on #Autonomi. When I found #Publii I couldn't believe it because it is something I wanted to build almost a decade ago but wasn't able to get beyond a concept.
I haven't been this excited about something for years!
#Publii has impressed! A desktop app #CMS for static websites.
The UX could be improved but is good enough and what it provides is awesome!
Works on Linux, Mac & Windows very like WordPress - but no servers!
So you can customise the website, create and format blog posts, preview locally and publish to different static hosting services all very easily.WordPress like themes and plugins from an online marketplace. :+1:
@happyborg I've been using it for a while now and I've really liked it. A simple, static site without all of the security concerns while also being easy(ish) to modify shouldn't be so rare.
I deploy to a free, http enabled file storage space and it seems to work well 😄 No ssl but its a static site anyways
I'm looking again at static website builders now that Safe Network is happening (beta this month, launch in October).
I was set up to deploy my #dWeb blog simultaneously to web and Safe Network using #ReactStatic but sadly that is no longer maintained (but still works).
So I'm working on one using my favourite #Svelte. Also trying #Publii, a WYSIWYG site editor which looks interesting. Not the best UX but could help a lot of folks get online, on web and the #decentralised#p2p#SafeNetwork.
It's a static site generator. Unlike many others, Publii is a graphical application, very easy to use. It manages content edition with 3 different methods:
Wysiwyg editor
Block editor (inspired by Medium IHMO)
Markdown editor
Adding images is simple, you can select one as featured for Organic data, put one in the header for the site or for each post.
It runs on Windows, Mac and Linux.
@lutindiscret I need to experiment with it more to get a feel but they're set up well for p2p apps in ways that other protocols aren't. Mixnets for privacy, arbittary get/set on the dht, soon blobs, routing messages to peers with delay tolerant networking, mobile first eith bindings accross most major labguages. Right now the devs are working on their chat thing as a way to iron out the rough bitd of thr apis so it might not have as much buzz but it's still active.
@mauve I want to believe but the fact that they reimplement a chat while we spend tens of years on XMPP, matrix, simpleX, cwutch, berty makes me not optimistic 😔
Couple of posts up there. Complete experiment atm, no idea if I'll carry on with it, but I'm finding it fun as hell using Publii so far.
I was also able to completely export my entire Wordpress website at nerdrooted.com over to Publii too, so that's an option for the future should I decide to go all in on this venture.
Yeah, blogging is passé with the kids these days, but creating static pages tickles me in a fun way, and using it is a much more pleasant experience than using WordPress for sure.
If nothing else it's an outlet for non-WoW stuff that I can discard or bin if I grow to dislike it or run into issues with.
Setting up a site is easy as hell too, especially additional sites once you're setup on Netlify, which is free for low-use cases like this!
It has a distinctly old-school vibe, which I'm really into.
I'll most likely tinker with the theming over the coming days, to get one I really like. Might even get a paid-theme if I continue to love it, as most of the really good ones are paid-themes, albeit cheap (£33 or thereabouts).
But yeah, really digging this atm, hopefully it sticks.
Been playing around with #Publii today. Interesting little application.
For those unaware of it, it's a static CMS application which generates static themed webpages, for blog/portfolio etc content. Similar to Wordpress, but entirely self-contained.
It's a nice little application, and the pages it produces are pretty good looking, and there are various themes available, just like WP, albeit nowhere nearly as many for obvious reasons.
I haven't blogged since May of last year, since the collapse of Twitter largely, as most of my blogging on Nerdrooted was/is around World of Warcraft.
Something like #Publii though might make it easier to create secondary & tertiary blogs around different subjects, such as Linux, Privacy, Open Source, other games, hell even on my life experiences with Autism and ADHD...
Still deciding if I should go down that route, or just diversify the content I make on Nerdrooted...
I really do love the experience of creating one-off pages that are consistently themed and look good.
But on the flip side there's ignoring literally YEARS of content on Nerdrooted.
I know that blogging as a creative "art-form" is very out of fashion these days, but frankly I don't really care.
The article I've semi-written using #Publii delves into much of the reasoning behind that, so I might just start producing more diverse content on the platform I already pay for and have...
The experience of changing web host is a good reminder of why normal people just post to Medium, Facebook or some other system they have no ownership or control over. If we want people to own their web presence and content, we need better software.
I've tested way too many CMSs, static site generators and web design applications. I typically start by trying to put together a simple page with an <h1> heading, a few <p> paragraphs, and a <ul> bulleted list. It's amazing how many alleged web publishing tools fail this basic test — even ones that want a $79 licensing fee. (I'm looking at you, RapidWeaver.)
Anyway, if your web site doesn't run to many thousands of pages, my recommendation is Publii. <https://getpublii.com>. It's the only thing I've found that's at least as usable as WordPress, works with commodity hosting, and also generates good HTML, CSS and images. It's free and open source, GPL licensed. #Publii#WebHosting#WordPress#CMS#Web0