| I agree completely. I started building websites in 1997 with FrontPage as a teenager. It was horrible - mostly because I was teenager and didn’t have anything interesting to say. It also wasn’t easy and took forever to get anything done. (So just slap an in construction gif in it.) Now I can build anything I want quickly. Writing raw html is very inefficient. If you want a friendly to create content, use Markdown. If you want to structure your content or have some standard components, use React. Use a static site compiler like Gatsby - that combines it all and makes your site compete with any hand-written html and still contain lazy-loaded interactive elements. My blog is a perfect example: I can write my blog posts in markdown, paste images in as needed, run a build script, and push the changes. It takes about 1 minute to build and deploy. But, at the same time, I can hide an entire text adventure terminal simulator in the header bar (that lazy loads on click). My site loads as fast as any static site, but it transforms into full interactive quickly. Best of both worlds. So I can produce well formatted content, cool components, or even multiplayer games - it’s perfect. We have a paradise of tools - it’s a creator’s dream - (once you figure out the right combination) https://ricklove.me/cool-stuff |