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Ha ha. Nice to see you Kyle. I know it's got us completely by the balls! Even Flash had to be wrapped in it. I think Canva's Website Builder is making some headway on that. Honestly that HTML is just making us lazy. I mean why write <button> when we can individually program the states for the browser with JS? Maybe with Tailwind's "separation of concerns" we can add 50 of it's utility classes to style it. We should start a movement. HTML lovers. Just a bunch of lefties.

Hi John how fabulous to hear from you. It's been ages. All is good with me and I hope it's the same with you..

Ah, so you did get my telepathic message then. I thought of you as I was uploading this. Nice to see you mate.

What would you suggest for static sites under 50 pages?

@@DavidWaumsley Wordpress ... and dont use a bad page builder.. Beverbuilder is clearly not the fastes.... ( if you care. ) and then it comes to safty use good plugins. If you have a good wordpress pipeline you can make a good website in 2 days... That you can give a client. A website thats Ranks! What if the client wants a new section or page... or wants to edit some text ... he will always need get back to you. Their is a good reason why 60% of the web runs with Wordpress

Cheers Matt. This is very much appreciated.

This is quite old and is showing the WordPress classic editor rather than the newer (Gutenberg) block editor. I don't use WordPress as much, but I still go back to the classic editor with this plugin wordpress.org/plugins/disable-gutenberg/

@@natebanker1263 Oh I see. This shows the HTML title attribute that is in the element being pointed at i.e title=" this is my hover-over text". I'm not building with WordPress and BB anymore so I'm not sure how you could add this to a clickable column. I think there was an attribute plugin for BB on GitHub somewhere that allowed to to insert these any any module. I don't think it is an option by default on anything that is not a link in BB.

Universal Sans is not a Google fonts. I think it is a commercial font, but I have no idea if they have made a variable version. I would guess not.

Thanks so much 🙂

I'm sorry it's gone for good.

I'm sorry. I had to take my demos down as it was too much to maintain with false accounts being set up. This video is quite old and I'm not not using a page builder any more.

That is understandable. I only wish the code was saved via github or something so that the information would still be usable because this is exactly the type of thing I was looking for.@@DavidWaumsley

Hi Julian. Thanks for watching. I see no reason why not. One thing that was not around when I did this was fetch priority (web.dev/fetch-priority ). Worth checking out - although this is probably even harder to implement via WordPress. I am out of touch now as I decided scrap using a builder. With all the cool new stuff browsers are supporting hand coding started to appeal.

Great, Thank you too.

Hi Melvin thank you so much. That is great to hear, I was wondering if it might be worth setting up some kind of life membership where I shared everything I did with on going tutorials. I think I would have to provide a version that did it all via the theme so folk did not have to use WP Code Box. It is just a thought. at this moment I have 5 projects running now to learn from so I don't think I will get anything done quickly.. I would like to get to the point where I know what I have is solid and faster then using a page builder.. Thank you again.

I used to use it, and did a video on it ages back. This video is about page load.

I really appreciate this comment. Thank you. Clients needing to change their own content is a real weakness in this. Presently, I would be the bottleneck in the situation where the client needed to quickly up date content for visitors. So far, for me that type of content has just been booking or calendar stuff which is done via a 3rd party. I thought I would end up limiting my type of work. Which was fine me me. I passed on a WP membership site that was broken, but luckily found out that it was only a directory and that updates were not often. Users struggled with the complexity and restriction of fields and some had to be banned for messing up the site (I think funky copy and paste text). Before going this route I would have looked to rethinking the fields and adding safeguards. After I just asked could they just not do it via Google docs or via a feedback overlay (Userback or Project Huddle). That was preferred. I am not done, but it has got me really thinking about where and when a client really needs a CMS. Anyway there still is a route either the Jamstack way or reverting some things and putting the WordPress site live. I think we are in the middle of quite a division of approaches. I think I will be some months learning from some new projects before I could come back with more detail, but wanted to see if there was any interest in this.

​@@DavidWaumsley this video inspired me to show some of the things I keep thinking about in regards to approach we have with Builderius site builder. Specifically HTML first approach. You control all the html and css, so you build it all as if its a static html site, and then we simply pull dynamic data where we need it. This makes it really easy to create stuff using modern css and html approaches without the complexity of blocks and other simiar stuff. The entire thing becomes so much simpler. I want to try and make a video about this to communicate some of excitement I have about it. :)

@@thisweblabvideos That sounds fabulous. I will be really interested in that. I was always interesting in what you were doing with Builderius, but it was only today that I followed your RUclips channel. I'm amazed this video has got good views. It looks totally mad from serious developers point of view, but I perhaps I'm not the only WordPress person who feels first they need to level their CSS and HTML skills first in familiar surrounding in bite sizes pieces. Still, even if I was a wiz kid with npm, right now I have a few jobs to do with 100's of WP pages and posts on the existing sites.

Nice to see you Dave. There's is no CMS with this WP approach so clients give me what needs to be updated. One advantage of Astro (and other SSG's) is that you can add editable areas (to their "front matter") and use Netlify's CMS option to give client access. Most JamStack CMSs are really expensive! I could talk about this a lot. It took me a long while to realize that a CMS was not what my clients actually wanted for the HTML type content. Actually, either they never used it or really got into it and started messing things up. I have had jobs where the original dev restricted what the client can edit (with ACF) and that client has come to me to get the restrictions removed. Much later after a proper chat with the person behind one of those those jobs it was not as I thought. The restriction were just too much, but they would rather someone else was altering the site for them. With new clients it is easier as over the build time we are working with shared Google docs so this is how they tell to make changes. For one site with many people needing to give feed back on what needs altering I am considering using UserBack or Project Huddle for it. Things like taking payment and bookings are all coming via other API so they have their own accounts to manage that. I can't do a full ecommerce site, because I don't have the skills to connect the Stripe API to the HTML, but it would be that way would go if needed.

@@DavidWaumsley Thanks for the replies David - trust all is well with you?

Hi Steven, sorry I need to get this out as a blog post as I don't show everything I mention. I use Formspark which actually still is on a deal: www.dealify.com/formspark/

Sorry, what do you mean by database? Local WP provide MySQL for WordPress.

@@stevendavis7628 Ah yes I see what you are saying. I have a new client who relies on a CRM, but luckily it is 3rd party and so I will have to connect FormSpark to Zapier to his CRM. I don't know yet as I have not started that job.

Thank you. That is so kind of you and appreciated. All the best David

Thanks Maria.

Thanks very much Melvin. I saw it come in. This video is a bit dated, but I actually love WPCB even more now. I'll do more content soonish.

Thanks Pete.