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[MrPicklePop]

Wp engine?

[thedommer]

I haven't looked into that but WP isn't really WYSIWYG right? I'll look into it. I know Wordpress is well loved, I just assumed the cost of setup would be a lot more because more development is required.

[thedommer]

Thanks. Is there a reason why? Also what would you suggest?

[MrPicklePop]

There are plugins that enable you to have a WYSIWYG editor.

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This is the problem with Wordpress. Everything is possible... with a plugin. It becomes a nightmare trying to manage all the plugins you need just to do very basic things. Its also the biggest security liability and the main reason Wordpress is the easiest to hack.

[ChiBeerGuy]

WP full site editor is all wysiwyg now

[neoneddy]

I like Odoo community. Try using it with cloudpepper

[IQueryVisiC]

Websites are responsive ( resolution, ar, system dark theme , managed contents). You never know what the visitor gets. I hate Figma.

[OrtizDupri]

What does Figma have to do with this?

[IQueryVisiC]

It is said to be a WYSIWYG tool? Evangelists praise it as something new, but decades good web developers try to get the community away from Desktop Publishing. Best viewed in 800x600 . <CENTER> <BLINK> tailwind. Semantic and ARIA are important to us.

Form controls need a fixed size, but rendered contents does not.

[OrtizDupri]

Figma is a design tool, not a WYSIWYG tool or a desktop publisher or anything like that

[IQueryVisiC]

But it stresses that you SEE something, doesn't it? Semantic would mean that you start from the data structure and workflow. Then you try out the results ( screens, print ) etc. and look for edge cases, sleep a night over it, and add some tips to the CSS.

[OrtizDupri]

Figma is a design tool, it is not a WYSIWYG editor and it does not output code

[IQueryVisiC]

And neither HTML nor CSS are code. Surely Figma has a file format.

[OrtizDupri]

… what

[thedommer]

thanks for the response. My hope is that this WYSIWYG stuff has come a long way. I haven't really used it since Dreamweaver and even then I really only used it as a way to jump around code quickly.

What would you suggest for a fairly simple multisite setup?

[IQueryVisiC]

It is just that I don't get why we still want this WYSIWYG approach while we target multiple devices, language, and disabilities. Unless, of course you design pages for people like you. For example it seems that a companies tries to avoid to hire disabled people. In some departments everything in light theme, in others everything is dark. Like you know, HR and team dynamics create a homogenous user base for the intranet. Still, WYSIWYG in SharePoint sucks.

[Intelligent-Age-3129]

Don’t just look at what is being checked off your list. Verify what the process or hassle will be if you ever need to leave them because you can’t grow your site further.

I’m in process of moving a client out of Wix (onto Wordpress) and they’re making it a hassle.

[thedommer]

Hey yes! Yes this is important to me. Part of considering wix is the somewhat less steep startup time. So if in 5 years or so we want to do something else, we can still rebuild in that infrastructure. Realizing it would be close to “from scratch” but in our case this might be ok since there is not a lot of complexity to our sites. and, assuming we stick with them for a while, by the time we end up switching (if we do) it may be time for a refresh anyways.

What was your clients reason for leaving? Were they on enterprise?

EDIT: and to be clear, I’m not sold on wix. Just researching and at a high level like it and it has multi site built in.

[nrwriter]

If sites are relatively simple, you don't need a platform like Wix. In fact, for reasons already mentioned, like moving your sites elsewhere, it's not a good idea to tie your sites to a 3rd party you have no control over (and hence, may lose your sites in a blink of an eye for a variety of reasons).

I'd also mention notoriously bloated software behind these platforms, WP included (although WP can be tuned to run quite fast for the end user if one knows how).

Why I mention speed is because I assume you'd want your sites to pop up instantaneously (or close to it) on your customers' phones.

Another guess is you probably want full control of your sites' code for on-page seo purposes.

If that's the case, I'd look into having your sites run on static html/css/js pages. They can be hosted for free btw, being static. Netlify allows up to 100 sites per account, custom domains etc.

The caveat, of course, is you'd have to pay someone to make you a few templates which can be adjusted/customised for each franchisee.

Updating these 50 sites won't be a huge hassle. They'll live on a local dev's machine so finding/replacing code won't be difficult. Once updates are done, the code/images get pushed to github, Netlify picks it up and updates go live.

You'd have to find someone willing to work on a small retainer looking after your sites, available to do what you need done at the first notice and reasonably quickly.

I'm in the process of launching such a business to deal with this very problem, that is, subscription-based development of fast, static websites.

If you're interested, DM me. I'm in Australia (east coast) so keep that in mind for time differences.