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Best tool for creating a basic business website (piefed.social)

submitted 1 year ago by ozoned@piefed.social to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I'm starting a NonProfit Fediverse powered business called BT Free. I was thinking of making my homepage built on Ghost, but due to some of it's choices, I'm looking for something else.

Does anyone have any suggestions for a self hosted, possibly fediverse powered, software for creating a simple clean efficient business website landing page that explains who we are, what we're doing, etc. I am NOT a designer so something with templates or can hold my hand would be wildly helpful.

I was thinking maybe a static site generator maybe?

Anyone have ANY thoughts or suggestions? Remember there are no such things as bad ideas or comments!

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[–] nycki@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My favorite static site generator by far is Eleventy, which you can learn by reading their sample code at eleventy-base-blog. It uses NodeJS which runs on all major platforms, and it generates plain old HTML that you can put on any static host. I played with several of the generators on the Jamstack list, and decided that this is the one I'm most comfortable recommending. It has a very high power-to-effort ratio, you can do some really useful stuff with very little knowledge. I'm using it on my personal site, https://nycki.net/, to automatically generate a "navbar" on every page, plus an RSS feed for my blog. It's also nice for generating "prev/next" links under articles.

[–] ozoned@piefed.social 2 points 1 year ago

Thank you! I shall look into that!