Just my experience, but I had my wife and I on Wordpress on an AWS managed EC2 instance for probably a decade. Neither one of us really felt like we were in control of our content since they it locked up in mySQL. And yeah, if I cared to touch phpMyAdmin more than once every few years, then maybe I wouldn't feel like it was "locked up".
Anyway, I transferred us over to 11ty without a real plan how she was going to manage content. She's smart and computer savvy, but never opened a command prompt for example.
In the end, I had her install a Markdown exporter for MS Word, as well as Github desktop, and VSCode for mass editing files and editing front-matter.
Its a learning curve, and she'll still get front-matter syntax wrong occasionally breaking the build, so it's not perfect by any means.
But in terms of deploy, she just presses the push button on Github desktop, and then our free Netlify account handles the CI and deployment automatically. I share my AWS account with her which is where we store our images.
Anyway, like i said, it's not perfect, but I feel like it wouldn't be hard to package up these loose ends into a friendlier UX.
I'm also really liking that our 3 blogs have gone from a $15 a month EC2 instance to around 12 cents for AWS S3 hosting for the images
Anyway, I transferred us over to 11ty without a real plan how she was going to manage content. She's smart and computer savvy, but never opened a command prompt for example.
In the end, I had her install a Markdown exporter for MS Word, as well as Github desktop, and VSCode for mass editing files and editing front-matter.
Its a learning curve, and she'll still get front-matter syntax wrong occasionally breaking the build, so it's not perfect by any means.
But in terms of deploy, she just presses the push button on Github desktop, and then our free Netlify account handles the CI and deployment automatically. I share my AWS account with her which is where we store our images.
Anyway, like i said, it's not perfect, but I feel like it wouldn't be hard to package up these loose ends into a friendlier UX.
I'm also really liking that our 3 blogs have gone from a $15 a month EC2 instance to around 12 cents for AWS S3 hosting for the images