Way too many tech stacks for basic sites exist to do the same thing with marginal advantages. I've been on Blogger reluctantly for several years now. I watch the cooler templates pass by while my decently fast serving and free choice with custom domain stays in the early 2000's.
I just built a Portfolio page using Wix and the studio app is dismally slow to load items. I got excited about the AI to figure out a design automatically. I'm skeptical of the page speed after it's done with pages. Then I noticed that even the basic paid version keeps Wix ads on your page.
I also am trying out Wordpress hosted on Wordpress.com and it's slightly cleaner experience but I'm struggling to get the portfolio page I want. I had to dig through templates to figure out how to make the top nav appear.
No blog tool seems to intelligently adapt to the image dimensions I add. Both Wordpress and Wix crop photos very strangely when I add them to a Portfolio template.
Github Pages looks compelling for speed and simplicity but is completely devoid of features like email capture, and social sharing. I took a few hours to get the basics of Jekyll and Markdown and the simplicity is compelling but it's clear I'll be hand-coding html if I go this route. And if I go hand-code I'm going to be tempted to learn Bootstrap.
Good news is that most hosted tools automatically adapt to mobile now.
Where is the ultimate small business CMS:
I just built a Portfolio page using Wix and the studio app is dismally slow to load items. I got excited about the AI to figure out a design automatically. I'm skeptical of the page speed after it's done with pages. Then I noticed that even the basic paid version keeps Wix ads on your page.
I also am trying out Wordpress hosted on Wordpress.com and it's slightly cleaner experience but I'm struggling to get the portfolio page I want. I had to dig through templates to figure out how to make the top nav appear.
No blog tool seems to intelligently adapt to the image dimensions I add. Both Wordpress and Wix crop photos very strangely when I add them to a Portfolio template.
Github Pages looks compelling for speed and simplicity but is completely devoid of features like email capture, and social sharing. I took a few hours to get the basics of Jekyll and Markdown and the simplicity is compelling but it's clear I'll be hand-coding html if I go this route. And if I go hand-code I'm going to be tempted to learn Bootstrap.
Good news is that most hosted tools automatically adapt to mobile now.
Where is the ultimate small business CMS:
- Fast ... at least Google App Engine fast.
- Completely hosted
- Secure ... at least Google secure.
- Modern designs ... at least Squarespace modern.
- Captures emails.
- Zero setup social sharing.
I think that combo could meet the needs of several million small businesses. So that's the summary after a week of trudging through options to compose an web portfolio.
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