[nabaraz]

Websites for non-technical people. I don't think this is a solved problem.

We have a lot of choices with WordPress, Wix, etc., but the drawbacks are too much. 1) You don’t own the domain. 2) Personalization is limited, so you end up with a generic page. 3) They cost too much.

I think something like Gatsby+<some CMS>+Github Actions+Azure Static Apps in one tool.

Everyone should have a personalized web page that they own.

[midiguy]

It comes down to the inherent tradeoff of flexibility vs ease of use. Wix is easy to use because it does not offer much customizability. If you made it flexible enough to create any layout, theme, etc, you would probably end up with a GUI that is straight up harder to learn and still less flexible than code (remember Dreamweaver?)

For what it's worth, most musicians, small business owners, etc. I know are pretty happy with things like Wix and don't care much about technicalities like owning domains as long as they can choose what shows up in the URL. Those that have more custom needs usually just want to delegate to someone else.

[solarkraft]

> the inherent tradeoff of flexibility vs ease of use

But it’s not inherent. Making a UI that can do both is hard, but possible.

[nabaraz]

> remember Dreamweaver?

Reminds me of Frontpage days. Most of the web pages had marquee (floating text?) and sound those days.