HACKER Q&A
📣 account-5

Managing a Simple Website, Advice


I've been asked to manage a family members business (stone mason) website. Currently the site is a Squarespace website.

I can't help but think it might be cheaper and simpler to create something bespoke, smaller and simpler, maybe cheaper. All the site needs is the usual simple business stuff (front page, contact us, etc) and a set of pages, like a blog really, detailing and showcasing previous jobs. Squarespace seems rather heavy for this usecase.

I've never managed a website before but am good/ok with html, CSS, and JavaScript. It's definitely a use case for a simple multipage website.

Any advice would be appreciated.

  👤 iamben Accepted Answer ✓
Keep it on Squarespace. Tidy it up if you must/want. But Squarespace for a year is a lot less than the time you'll spend building (and then looking after/changing/whatever) it, even if you end up hosting it for pennies afterwards.
👤 abudabi123
Assuming stone mason types appreciate master-y of an art form you could begin your adventure on sdf dot org's faq page. Having registered the name and put together the webhost stack on a NetBSD platform you are good to go with the html/css/js framework. It is something I want to do but never get around to doing myself. The end state looks like a website you see on your local desk Mac and then you simply synchronize your file system assets with your webhost's file system. Lots to learn along the way. You could go deep and digress to reading the IETF RFCs for what is coming around the corner to the future!
👤 abdnafees
If you must keep things bare bone, try hosting the site on GitHub Pages https://pages.github.com/.
👤 pestatije
There's nothing simpler than doing nothing...if it ain't broke...