I know they serve an important market, but damn, the way they dumb down creating and editing a website makes those of us with even mediocre HTML skills cringe with their interfaces
I doubt you'd be surprised to learn that WordPress has a "site editor" like that: just drag and drop elements where you want them. I despise it. Fortunately, there's a "classic editor" plugin that lets oldster coders like me do stuff by hand.
I started with the Wordpress.com site circa 2009 or so, but quickly moved to a self hosted deployment and never looked back.
The new block editor is a major pain in the ass, and I *guess* it appeals to the less sophisticated, but I prefer to write in markdown, and insert HTML to get things to look just right.
I am still coming to grips with the chaos that the amateurs put in it 4 years ago when they started (and that person is - naturally - long gone
I doubt you'd be surprised to learn that WordPress has a "site editor" like that: just drag and drop elements where you want them. I despise it. Fortunately, there's a "classic editor" plugin that lets oldster coders like me do stuff by hand.
I hope the worst of the cleanup is behind you.
I started with the Wordpress.com site circa 2009 or so, but quickly moved to a self hosted deployment and never looked back.
The new block editor is a major pain in the ass, and I *guess* it appeals to the less sophisticated, but I prefer to write in markdown, and insert HTML to get things to look just right.
I am still coming to grips with the chaos that the amateurs put in it 4 years ago when they started (and that person is - naturally - long gone