This is indeed good enough; in fact there was a post recently about how demand for Ruby On Rails (a "boring", server-side MVC framework) is still going strong.
Javascript, single page apps and React are all the hype, but outside of a few unicorns (Facebook, Airbnb, etc), the "boring" way is still where most of the money is being made. A lot of businesses still rely on Wordpress for example, and while that platform is garbage from a maintenance & security perspective, it does its job and proves that customers don't actually care about your site being powered by hype technologies.
The front page of Wordpress.com claims "WordPress powers 31% of the internet."
A lot of mileage in the "boring" frameworks!
Re:I don’t know how to create a website
by guitarbill on Monday July 09, 2018 @05:09AM
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Probably why static site generators are popular. Highly effective, shallow learning curve, simple.
I just googled Dreamweaver and it still exists! I wonder who uses and pays for such software today. I used it like 15 years ago when I was a kid, that and Microsoft Frontpage, but can`t imagine paying for Dreamweaver today.
It comes as part of the Adobe Suite license. I’ve kicked the tires recently but I don’t know who is actually still using it. ColdFusion developers I guess. I don’t know if it still holds true but the government had a lot of ColdFusion as of a few years ago.
Which government?
And those businesses just opt for a nice Weebly or Wix template, or something similar - there's no need for a developer.
And they don't work without js enabled. It's embarrassing when I visit a web designers or developers site and it's a blank page.
I don't think we're talking about developers' pages, but small businesses. And I don;t think small businesses in general give one jot for people who have JS turned off.
Hell, I’m a developer and I just made myself a Squarespace blog. It’s $12/month and I set the whole thing up in a few hours.
Seems kind of pricey to me for a personal blog. I host 8 sites on a $5 a month DigitalOcean droplet two of which get pretty high traffic.
Re:I don’t know how to create a website
by Double_a_92 on Monday July 09, 2018 @05:57AM
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That seems rather expensive just to host a blog...
Honestly part of me still feels like that would be good enough for most businesses these days still, but that’s just not what developers want to build.