Squarespace made a business simplifying all that. It's expensive but there are templates and it had a WYSIWYG editor.

markdown 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Ridiculously expensive. The cost of hosting a mom-and-pop website is close to zero, and they charge $20/month or something like that.

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pibaker 18 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Except Squarespace does not just sell hosting. Their main business is selling a CMS and website builder that is supposed to be easy enough for complete noobs to use.

You and I know how to build and host websites, ok, but it had likely taken us dozens if not hundreds of hours of learning everything between TCP/IP to ARIA attributes to get here. The average small business owner does not have this knowledge or the time to learn it. They keep Squarespace in business.

	▲	markdown 9 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		> Their main business is selling a CMS and website builder that is supposed to be easy enough for complete noobs to use. Yeah, like I said, it costs close to $0. > The average small business owner does not have this knowledge or the time to learn it. They keep Squarespace in business. My point is, SquareSpace could charge a fraction of what they do and still be rolling in cash. Instead they charge ridiculous fees that simply go to pay for more ads.

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esseph 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You're not paying for the hosting, not why would they try to sell you that, really? People pay them for everything else around the hosting.

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eastbound 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It is expensive. Add to this: On this audience, people will lose their passwords, leave outdated information, transfer their business, and not connect often — I bet the security is more costly that a technical audience.