Tech Envy

You might be tech-envious when you learn how little effort goes into producing and maintaining this site.

Background:

We got a surprising number of requests for "How to move migrate from Wordpress?" in our 2020 sales and estimating counts.

Why?

Corporations of all sizes had a love affair with Wordpress since 2003. But with an install base of 39 million sites, there's a lot of searching for something better.

Here is what our customers needed:

More effortless to add and edit content
Waay less complexity. This isn't 2003 any more, why are we still coding that way?
Increasingly higher expectations of performance and mobile/offline features
Doesn't require LAMP ops to manage
Only when JS required - natural, for even the most demanding app dev

What the site you are looking at does without

No more 2003 era SQL database - plain old files work great, maintained in git, duh.
No more back end server running to assemble necessary page parts on request.
No more complex or hard to manage menu creation or management

What the site you are looking at does include

Works like a desktop or mobile app - on and off line
Really dumbed down page composition, on simple Markup, just like github, for example.
Plain old HTML/CSS/JS/TS, with just a little bit of Nunjucks template language
Insert and run any extra app-like javascript on any page
CRO is running, to A-B test your interest as a site consumer.

Check it out on your phone! Go offline! Check it for speed!

When does this platform go mainstream?

The site you are looking at is created in a pre-release version of Rocket. Expected to go 1.0 in 2021.

Rocket is built on the SSG of 11ty, and other well regarded stacks.
Separately, there are 18 Fins (Rocket themes) in active development by yours truly - including the theme you are currently viewing.
Deployed for free, on a CDN, at Netlify
Source visible on github
More on Jamstack or wikipedia/netlify/JAMstack

This is page is just an introductory blurb. The intent is to provide updated information, as 2021 rolls on.