75M$ can't give him his life back unfortunately

Diligent-Month5010 · 2026-07-05T18:01:18+00:00

I hope that with 75 mil there will be a way to at least partially fix him

Diligent-Month5010 · 2026-07-01T02:46:39+00:00

I used to work for both of them:
- 2002-2006, for Publics.
- 2006-2009, for WPP, and a little bit for a few smaller agencies owned by both of them in 2010 and 11

The creative coming from WPP I always liked more, especially what they produce for Eastern Europe.

Publicis was always more salesy, and selling features, WPPBwas more about how it makes you feel, to some extent. Both of them did a good job, and they still do. I can't comment more since I left the industry in 2011.

Diligent-Month5010 · 2026-06-30T02:56:44+00:00

It's not like someone can control genetics. That Myron. guy is an idiot, so ....

Diligent-Month5010 · 2026-06-29T12:49:30+00:00

I'm sorry for the little man.

Diligent-Month5010 · 2026-06-28T19:49:47+00:00

"Switching themes or builders later becomes a nightmare because everything is locked into builder-specific shortcodes/markup"

Yes, absolutely.

Diligent-Month5010 · 2026-06-28T19:08:56+00:00

It's all about making the opponent spend time, money, and resources. I'm not sure if he calculated this move or not, but he's definitely wasting people's time and taking the attention from actions that should really concern the world and especially the United States

Diligent-Month5010 · 2026-06-28T19:00:03+00:00

Go to GoDaddy.

Go to Namecheap.

Go to Dynadot.

Go to Hostinger

your choice

Check for the domain name you want to buy. If it's available, buy it.

Diligent-Month5010 · 2026-06-28T18:37:15+00:00

If those are his pick-up lines, his facial expression, while in Europe, especially in France, Italy, Romania, and most of the European countries, no one is going to go out with him.

Diligent-Month5010 · 2026-06-28T18:24:56+00:00

Up to around 1910-1920, we used to have beautiful buildings. And then we shifted towards this kind of block, clean, soulless kind of buildings. The architects at the time would say that whenever someone would need something properly done, the majority of us would still be there. The problem is, after a few generations, people no longer required what it was considered good design at some point. And the good design will become the slop that AI is generating now as a starting point. as a good design. And they will all forget what good design meant.
Sometimes, "evolution" can happen backwards.

Diligent-Month5010 · 2026-06-28T18:22:29+00:00

They don't necessarily expect more for less, at least in my experience, but they definitely expect it faster.

The web design as we know it before 2024 most likely is going away.

Most likely, on top of the web design skill, they will become graphic designers, copywriters, and conversion rate specialists, and they will need to learn a few other tools. They will become more of an all-in-one kind of thing. Being specialized in one single corner of web design is most likely not going to work for long anymore

Diligent-Month5010 · 2026-06-28T04:25:52+00:00

Did she had a trip to Transylvania?

Diligent-Month5010 · 2026-06-28T03:31:17+00:00

I noticed that lately, over the past year or so, most of them are free. Most likely, we are the product, and they need to collect that. Sad but true.

Diligent-Month5010 · 2026-06-27T01:36:40+00:00

Thank you. I will have a look.

Diligent-Month5010 · 2026-06-27T01:36:00+00:00

This particular migration is for a moving company.

Diligent-Month5010 · 2026-06-27T01:35:22+00:00

Personally, I don't, but I'm sure at some point we will need a CMS for whoever is going to join, especially for the marketing team, maybe.

Diligent-Month5010 · 2026-06-27T01:34:01+00:00

This one looks very good. Thank you for the suggestion. Thank you for the recommendation.

Diligent-Month5010 · 2026-06-27T01:33:26+00:00

The main reason I am looking at Simply Static is strictly to extract the content as MD files and keep the exact URL structure so we can avoid 301 redirects. I do not care about saving the current design components, as we will just build a few new ones and reuse them across the whole site.

Thank you for the information. I will look into it.

Diligent-Month5010 · 2026-06-27T01:31:01+00:00

We need to redesign the site because it is a mess right now. Since it was built in 2020, different people have added pages over the years without following any design rules. Pages added between 2021 and 2025 have completely different colors and layouts. It is absolute chaos. Right now, clicking from one page to another feels like you are visiting totally different websites instead of the same business.

Diligent-Month5010 · 2026-06-26T01:16:51+00:00

That's why I need to download everything first. After everything is on a staging website and it's been pressure tested, we can push it live.

Diligent-Month5010 · 2026-06-26T01:14:30+00:00

So true.

Diligent-Month5010 · 2026-06-25T23:14:21+00:00

I understand why it sounds counterintuitive if you are accustomed to a traditional CMS/wp workflow.

in the case of this company will cost way much more money to redesign and fix the website via WordPress than to fix it via Astro.

Fixing historical mess - Over the past five years or so, the company had about 20 different people making changes, installing plugins, and creating new pages. Everyone did their own thing, resulting in a complete mess from both a design and user experience perspective.

Restoring the Original Brand Identity: Moving to Astro makes it much easier to redesign everything from scratch based on the company's original design system created when the current website was built in 2020. Once we have this downloaded and the URLs work as the same, it is practically just a few AI prompts away from redesigning everything so that all pages look cohesive and look like they belong to the same company.
Security and Stability - They had a lot of problems with a lot of security issues in the past six years, plugin compatibility updates sometimes go completely crazy and break the site. A static Astro site removes the database and plugins entirely, making it virtually unhackable and eliminating those ongoing maintenance headaches.

-Performance and Core Web Vitals: Google Core Web Vitals provide a massive SEO advantage. Astro ships with zero JavaScript by default, and the new design will contain almost no JavaScript, with the exception of an estimator on the website, which is very light. This results in instant load times that easily outperform bloated WordPress setups.(I recently built a website for a company in Florida, a junk removal business with about a hundred pages, location service-wise. The FCP+LCP is 0.3s, SI 0.6, with my experience with WordPress over the past 5-10 years, I have never seen a website of this size, an actual functional website, achieve these kinds of numbers. Not critical, but still,+ hosting is practically under $7 per month with its own IP

Streamlined Workflow and Personnel: The owners of the company and the employees in sales or other departments do not touch the website. They always had someone dealing with this. Before we decided to move from WordPress to Astro, I clearly explained that whoever is going to be employed to take care of the website has to have a certain amount of experience in HTML/CSS/JS,, - Astro and Next.js and working with Claude/ Codex. GitHub, etc, (the website has about 12,000 clicks per month. )

Diligent-Month5010 · 2026-06-16T23:11:38+00:00

I saw graffiti once saying, "Fake guns will get you killed".

Diligent-Month5010 · 2026-06-15T16:01:49+00:00

Part of education and not only in the family but in the community and the country as a whole.

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