So if that's like. Your thing. Read on.
For the last several years, I've been using Wordpress to manage my own slice of the web at retroheart.net. I can already hear people who have actual webdev knowledge screaming at me for this.
Over time, though, the whole site has just become incredibly slow and frustrating to use. I'm assuming this is mostly because of Wordpress and various add-ons that I've tried to get under control to keep the site functional.
Over the past six months or so, I've been looking at flat-file Content Management Systems so that I have something that loads quickly, just shows what I want it to show, and doesn't have a bunch of extras I don't need. Technically, it works on paper - I can drop it onto a test subdomain and it loads in a fraction of a second. This is good! I can work with this!
But actually getting it to look and feel like I want it to has been a nightmare. Pretty much all documentation seems to expect that you are already aware of the terms and processes that are used, and sometimes the answer to something is markdown, sometimes it's HTML, sometimes it's CSS, and sometimes it's none of the above because the documentation just doesn't tell you.
Sometimes you're just served up an error about a file or template that doesn't exist because of yaml or twig files that you were supposed to edit in advance, but god help you if you want to know where that file should actually go. I tried a different CMS that was supposed to be easier, but my options are to either install to a location that doesn't seem to work or use a separate install manager that doesn't work for me, which frustrates me further because the installation docs are written in a way that tells you how simple and easy and "it just works" it is.
I'm sure this stuff makes sense to lots of people, but it's not working for me at all. Right now it feels like my options are between trying to nudge people towards a site that takes ~20 seconds to load (at which point nobody will want to visit it because nobody's got that kind of time these days and it looks like it's broken if it doesn't load in less than 5) or settling for a site that loads fast but looks chunked as hell.
Maybe I'm just asking too much here, but I also don't want to have to learn an entire programming language to make a gallery and pages for information like if I want to add commissions and have it load in a reasonable amount of time.