Confession: as a recovering programmer who made a career change to non-programming, it took at most 30 minutes to say "fuck it" and go with Squarespace.
I've never been on the web side of things, but I knew enough HTML in the early aughts to put up a basic informational website. After digging in to some sites I admired, I decided that it was too much distraction from my actual work to roll my own.
Granted some of this complexity comes from the legitimate need to support mobile gracefully, but damn are there layers upon layers upon yet more layers of stuff just to get some pictures to show up nicely with some text and look consistent across devices.
Props to everyone who does this for reals and does a good job achieving that consistency. For my money, I'll hire it out.
I've never been on the web side of things, but I knew enough HTML in the early aughts to put up a basic informational website. After digging in to some sites I admired, I decided that it was too much distraction from my actual work to roll my own.
Granted some of this complexity comes from the legitimate need to support mobile gracefully, but damn are there layers upon layers upon yet more layers of stuff just to get some pictures to show up nicely with some text and look consistent across devices.
Props to everyone who does this for reals and does a good job achieving that consistency. For my money, I'll hire it out.