Tldr we want a static website that will last a long time and also look pretty nice.
Right now, we have a wordpress website. It looks very nice. It also have 4 extensions that aren’t configured to auto update. Also whenever I try to make changes to the website they don’t apply because the website was configured via the extensions and I hate it.
I want a static site of some kind. It’s simple to self host or host anywhere, and it’s also simple to secure and keep maintained for a long time.
I am currently looking at static site generators, like quarto, or docusaurus
However, they are difficult to theme to the “niceness” that I want, and their nature results in these somewhat fixed output formats. Like, it is somewhat difficult and annoying to put images anywhere I want them and etc.
Is there like a fixed WYSIWYG html editor? Something between designing a website from scratch and a static site generator. Or is there a way to finagle static site generators to be more flexible than blogs or documentation sites?
You dont say what kind of website it is, just not blog or documentation style.
But SSGs can be skinned a bunch if different ways, and have been set up for a bunch of different purposes.
https://github.com/myles/awesome-static-generators
I have been using Zola for myself lately, its less blog post and more article oriented, but still doc heavy. I like the duckquill theme (with… More than a few changes, but still), which I doubt fits what you want. For comparison, here is duckquill: https://duckquill.daudix.one/
But you may like the Portio theme: https://quentin-rodriguez.github.io/portio-zola/
If you don’t need to update often though, I think some basic html could be the way to go rather than using an ssg.
@curbstickle @selfhosted Awesome list! I could have really used this a year ago. 😒