@ifixcoinops sideway tangeant, (from someone who did start with writing tags in a texf editor and was listening to the rationale behind CSS):
I am under the impression that static website generators that ingest Markdown and spit out stuff that you can upload on the hosting that came for free with the domain you registeted, did mostly got us "there".
@dryak Static site generators are still generally command line, which isn't remotely similar to a WYSIWYG program, imo. Much higher barrier to entry, even if you only use a standard template. And that's before you get to figuring out how to use git (for GitHub/GitLab pages) or Netlify.
There is Publii, which I think is still around? GUI plus integration with free hosting. @ifixcoinops
@eladnarra @ifixcoinops hence the "mostly".
Though:
- they aren't CLI by necessity, it should be possible to wrap a nice GUI around (just like the countless existing GUI that wrap around cd burning and ripping tools, ffmpeg, etc.)
- there *are* WISIWYG markdown editors
- Git isn't required. Some registrars (e.g. Infomaniak) offer a tiny static website that you can SFTP into (with FileZilla) to deposit you static files.
The building block are here.