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!
I’ve been experimenting with Hugo to make simple websites. It’s got a very minor learning curve, and plenty of templates to get you started. I like it!
You’re referring to https://gohugo.io/ the static site generator?
You got it! I should have included the link, sorry!
what was your show-stopper when you evaluated Ghost?
I’m currently looking into Ghost. What choices turned you off of it.
Wordpress fits this bill.
Although their CEO has a few screws loose.
Yeah, I’ve heard folks use Wordpress and it has a Fediverse Plugin now. And it can be selfhosted? I’ll check it out! Thank you! :-)
The other catch with WP is that there’s a lot of overhead, and you have to keep it updated to avoid security issues. Static site generators have minimal overhead and updates, but may not be as easy to use when building the site.
I think you want a static site generator
We use Vitepress for https://fedecan.ca/en/
https://vitepress.dev/guide/getting-started
If you want to selfhost it, there is https://www.coolify.io/ , but imo you want something like GitHub pages/ Netlify since it’s for your business
What kind of fediverse features did you want for the website? You might be better off making accounts on fediverse platforms and linking to the website
Jekyll is also really nice. I’ve used it several times with great success
@otter @ozoned @selfhosted you can also look into https://kitten.small-web.org/ made by our very own and lovely @aral
HTMLy is nice.
If you end up not liking WP, Drupal is another option. https://new.drupal.org/home. // https://www.drupal.org/project/activitypub
I love business
I don’t LOVE business personally lol :-D but I do love the Fediverse and I’m going to attempt to “business” it at least. :-D NonProfit, because we’ve been down the route of Profit before and we saw where that got us.
I love Steam
