all websites are awful. the only websites that do not suck are those made by dedicated teams or by individuals who are making it for themselves and have some experience with all this madness.
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normal people and small businesses when they want a website they will pay some retarded moron and this retarded moron will just deploy some bloated premade garbage with ugly templates and terrible CMS that will have a giant maintenance cost and the result will be a blog faking as a website with terrible everything
what is the solution?
that gemini thing would be a good solution but it's hard to imagine it getting adopted.
maybe there is a way to come up with a new "standard" for simple websites that focus on information, a new way of designing a website such that it doesn't have to have those 90s elements that normal people think of when they think of a website: dropdown menus, "about" sections and so on.
for example, I am dentist and I want to have a website just so people can find me and learn a little about me before scheduling a visit.
in today's world I will pay a moron and get a wordpress blog or something worse in return. but I don't want to write period "articles" about dentistry (or rather copy from other websites), I just want to show my credentials and whatever. I also don't want to have an "about section", because the entire website _is_ about me already.
but eventually I may want to actually write things that may be interesting. maybe have standardized guides there that I can direct my patients too on what to do after a surgery. maybe I want to later add section where people can schedule appointments or talk to me after them. maybe I want to post pictures about the places where I treat the patients and whatnot.
unfortunately in today's world a facebook page does all this much better than a website. in a facebook page I can just add stuff as I go, and I don't have to think in terms of a 90s website "structure" with dropdown menus.
I guess someone needs to come up with a way to design websites as facebook pages -- not looking like facebook pages, and not having the stupid annoyances of facebook, but just being flexible things that will adapt depending on the stuff you _post_ there. and since it won't be a facebook page it could be much more flexible.
that's called a landing page!