[alturnwall]

Quick comments/question from a designer:

I've played around with TakeShape a little bit but have yet to deploy anything, but am interested in using it on projects moving forward. It looks like this is what I've been searching for as a CMS replacement.

I'm coming from years of freelance WordPress projects and from what I can tell, if you've done any theming in WordPress, especially with the Advanced Custom Fields plugin and custom post types, the transition to TakeShape seems pretty doable. I love the drag-and-drop modeling all in one place. Nice that it's visually baked into the CMS and not a separate plugin/screen/etc.

So question: for someone like me who can do some front-end code, but isn't a "back end" developer, how would you suggest I start to play with building templates using TakeShape? What do you think is the best path forward testing a site build/design quickly to make the call over something like WP?

Thanks.

[asprouse]

Check out our quickstart https://www.takeshape.io/docs/quickstart/. It has step-by-step directions to get you up and running nothing with our "Shape Books" sample project. The same steps can be repeated for any of our sample projects https://github.com/takeshape/takeshape-samples. If you are coming from wordpress and looking to build a blog I would check out the shape-blog sample project.

Also I would recommend using Netlify for hosting of static sites. We have a super easy integration with them https://www.takeshape.io/docs/configuring-netlify/

[dwsprouse]

@Alturnwall, I fall in the same camp—I can do some front-end coding, but I'm by no means a backend developer (I honestly wouldn't even use the label developer).

I've been using TakeShape to manage content for mozzstix.com and I've found it incredibly easy and intuitive. It's definitely built for us!