Versatile software engineer with a background in .NET consulting and CMS development. Working on regaining my embedded development skills to get more involved with IoT opportunities.
In terms of cheap, static site generators are your best bet. It's a static image of your site, so it can be cached easily and there are services like Netlify that will host it for dirt cheap or free. I have used Hugo and liked it a lot after the learning curve, but it honestly was pretty easy to pick up. I also never finished that project, I need to go back and do that, whoops.
Jekyll is the other commonplace static site generator and has been around a little longer. It works with GitPages so a lot of devs tend to know it. You can actually make the site a Git repo and supply a custom URL, and you have hosting and version control taken care of. Lots of themes exist, many of them free.
For things like forms or dynamic data, that's where you'll run into a challenge. You can use AWS Lambda or Azure Functions to handle form submissions, or you can just embed in a form builder from whatever marketing service they use, if any. They would just need to edit Markdown files to update content, and I would hope someone in the organization feels brave enough to take that part on themselves.
If they truly feel they need a CMS (my guess is they don't), I would go for Ghost. Hexo looks pretty cool but no experience with it and it looks like your live site would be a great beta test for them.
Also, some services have non-profit discounts if you can get proof of their state certificate as a non-taxed entity. About 50% of the time you can get a discount of some sort if their is something paid you want to try out. For example, the creator of Elmah.io (error logging service) gave me a 50% discount when I worked at a nonprofit just because I asked and his service is still not very popular in the US.
Versatile software engineer with a background in .NET consulting and CMS development. Working on regaining my embedded development skills to get more involved with IoT opportunities.
Thank you! I am trying to get my blog set up this week so I can get my writing out there more easily.
If you have any more questions, feel free to shoot me a message and I'd be happy to answer! I have been playing around with a couple headless CMS systems over the weekend, but none have been worth the monthly rate they want to charge me.
Absolutely! Go get that blog up and running so you can write about your experience working with those CMSs, I'd be first in line to read it. :) Once more, thank you.
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In terms of cheap, static site generators are your best bet. It's a static image of your site, so it can be cached easily and there are services like Netlify that will host it for dirt cheap or free. I have used Hugo and liked it a lot after the learning curve, but it honestly was pretty easy to pick up. I also never finished that project, I need to go back and do that, whoops.
Jekyll is the other commonplace static site generator and has been around a little longer. It works with GitPages so a lot of devs tend to know it. You can actually make the site a Git repo and supply a custom URL, and you have hosting and version control taken care of. Lots of themes exist, many of them free.
For things like forms or dynamic data, that's where you'll run into a challenge. You can use AWS Lambda or Azure Functions to handle form submissions, or you can just embed in a form builder from whatever marketing service they use, if any. They would just need to edit Markdown files to update content, and I would hope someone in the organization feels brave enough to take that part on themselves.
If they truly feel they need a CMS (my guess is they don't), I would go for Ghost. Hexo looks pretty cool but no experience with it and it looks like your live site would be a great beta test for them.
Also, some services have non-profit discounts if you can get proof of their state certificate as a non-taxed entity. About 50% of the time you can get a discount of some sort if their is something paid you want to try out. For example, the creator of Elmah.io (error logging service) gave me a 50% discount when I worked at a nonprofit just because I asked and his service is still not very popular in the US.
Once more, thank you for an informative response - much better than the results I was getting from my Google searches. ;)
Thank you! I am trying to get my blog set up this week so I can get my writing out there more easily.
If you have any more questions, feel free to shoot me a message and I'd be happy to answer! I have been playing around with a couple headless CMS systems over the weekend, but none have been worth the monthly rate they want to charge me.
Absolutely! Go get that blog up and running so you can write about your experience working with those CMSs, I'd be first in line to read it. :) Once more, thank you.