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Merry Christmas and all that folks.
This question isn’t directly related to /e//OS but would appreciate some guidance.
Can anyone recommend an ethical or open source website builder if there is such a thing. I’m a novice that would like to build a basic website for a mixture of blogging, personal stuff or for a small business.
Cheers
I can recommend static website generators like hugo or jekyll, they have many themes to choose from aswell. I use it for my personal website
Can anyone recommend an ethical or open source website builder
I would submit that it’s probably worth fleshing out this idea a bit further. One can simply open a text editor, type "<html> My Blog </html> and have a fast, functional, basically-hackerproof website. If you want something a bit more elaborate, 1,001 free HTML/CSS templates exist on the internet for you to edit by hand if you want.
If you’re looking for more than that, Wordpress is kinda the default blog/website platform, there’s a massive ecosystem around it, and it’s GPLv2. What constitutes “ethical” in this context is very, very nebulous, so if Wordpress doesn’t fit the bill, it’s probably worth expanding on what sort of ethical parameters you’re looking to enforce.
Joomla, Drupal, Ghost, and WriteFreely are all alternatives if you don’t want to use WordPress. Perhaps an integral part of the question here is “where do you intend to put it” - are you going to use a commercial hosting provider like Namecheap or Gandi.net? are you self-hosting on an IaaS platform like Hetzner? Are you all-the-way self-hosting on personally owned infrastructure? That’s also a part of the question being left out; you’re going to want to pick a platform supported by your hosting provider - again, making Wordpress a frontrunner because it’s basically impossible to run a hosting service that doesn’t support it.
Vague requests get vague answers; specific requests get specific answers =)
Hope something helps!
I would like to mention grav
Really liking the look of Hugo!
In regards to 2., do you know if there are alternative ‘service providers’. I don’t have an account with any of these companies.
You can use github or gitlab pages, or any other host. Hugo just generates the files for a static webpage which you can host from anything thats publicly accessible @a_b_c
