In this inaugural post, I welcome you to my blog. I'm going to try and share general information, bits and pieces of issues I come across, how I solve them and the tools I find useful in doing so.
I'll start with what you're seeing right now: My personal website. I needed to make this, but I'm not a web developer. I don't want to be a web developer. I don't want to be spending my days figuring out what's the coolest web framework that's going to be out of fashion in a year's time. I've got other things to do.
I knew that an authoring tool would be the way to go. Ideally, a WYSIWYG editor that lets you create web pages in a visual manner and automatically builds the HTML/CSS/Javascript bundle to host on an web server.
For this, I had a certain set of requirements. The solution should:
- Be easy to learn and fast to work with.
- Have decent documentation of its use and features.
- Be a desktop application with a perpetual license option: I really dislike the SaaS model.
- Give you access to a sizeable template and image gallery.
- Should support responsive design.
- Not be hideously expensive.
This is not a review of the app. I've just started using it, so I can't say much about its limitations. There still aren't any walls I've bumped into. But I can say that it's been a good match so far. Give it a try if you have a similar list of requirements!