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State of trying to update website building skills for the first time since 2009 1. Trying to do simple table-like layouts using divs/css is a Mars mission. I give up. 2. Did a hello-world in Gatsby. Going beyond basics is like going to Moon. I give up. 3. Gutenberg is gut.
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Did you know there was a secret conspiracy in the tech world making it nearly impossible to do anything that looks vaguely like it wants to be 2d without spending 6 months or thousands of dollars? Only 1-d website building for us proles.
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Just use jekyll to build the site (I'm assuming you want to move to static from dynamic) and then host it wherever. I've found that to be the most straightforward. But still has a non-zero learning curve.
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Yup layout is very hard. You can still use tables if you like. But yeah any website that doesn’t look like the 90s was made by a dev struggling with css layout. Every time someone achieved something beautiful and amazing - that became standard and we all cried. However: flexbox.