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I'm looking for a way to create webpages without HTML, any tips? (lemmy.kde.social)

submitted 8 months ago by tubbadu@lemmy.kde.social to c/programming@beehaw.org

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Hello! I'll try to explain what I'm looking for: I sometimes have to write simple web pages (not just text, also buttons and video players and so on), but I really really hate writing html code. What I'm used to is QML, which I like a lot, because of the ease of placing objects exactly where I need using the anchors and the Layout objects. What I'm looking for is a language or something with a similar syntax, that can then be "built" to plain HTML/CSS/JS. Is there something like this? I know I can compile Qt/QML for webassembly, but I'm having huge amounts of problems, and also I'd like to have the possibility to have a plain HTML result, not necessary bind to the server side.

thanks in advance!!

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[–] dan@upvote.au 6 points 8 months ago (5 children)

What about a WYSIWYG editor app like Dreamweaver? I don't know if there's any good free ones any more though, now that FrontPage Express is gone.

Otherwise, a headless CMS with a nice editor could work too. Something like WordPress except it outputs static HTML rather than doing it dynamically

[–] flower3@feddit.de 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Ever heard of wix or squarespace? I think there is your reason these apps don’t exist anymore.

[–] derbis@beehaw.org 5 points 8 months ago

Note that Wix is under boycott because it uses coercion against its employees to get them to publicly side with Israel

[–] dan@upvote.au 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Those platforms aren't ideal because you're locked in to the respective service. Something standalone (or even a CMS like WordPress) is good since you're not locked in - you can move to a different hosting provider, self-host it, more easily migrate to a different platform, etc.

We've always had similar platforms - in the 2000s we had Geocities, Angelfire, Tripod, etc. There's still a lot of value in actually owning your site.

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