A key part of working with tech and coding is abstraction; understanding what you don't have to know and letting it be until you have a compelling reason to expand in that area. So many interdependent techniques, structures, and services exist you can't spend your time chasing down everything.
If the trade off in time to learn vs the benefit you'll get from investing in the time to learn just isn't there, then just keep doing what you're doing until the situation changes.
“Using only html” tells me they were relying on posting forms to handle any data and idk if they know but it’s not 1995 anymore and people don’t want to deal with a page refresh for every action they do on a website
I, too, would like to spend weeks writing the most broken and irritating shopping experience of all time that has all the flaws and none of the benefits of anything we've learned about ecommerce in the last 30 years.
I just built a website from scratch. I made a spreadsheet to automate most of the heavy lifting because I'm more comfortable in Excel than pretty much anything else.
To do this I paused book reviewing, sewing, and most of my normal online activity for a solid six weeks. Just to get that done.
You literally don't have time for that! Acting like learning HTML and CSS is easier than one of these website builder sites being better at *checks notes* what's supposed to be their whole deal is just ludicrous.
You should be able to make goblin hordes, glass bolos, etc. and not be stuck coding.
I'm so frustrated by this attitude that the only two options are "home brew your entire system from the ground up with parts you sourced from university closets" and "hand over all control to a third party." There's so much space between those!
Especially when it comes to taking payments online, an extremely hot target for exploits that is the number one use case for leaning heavily on decades of work that has been done before and not reinventing the wheel
that is like telling someone to learn carpentry to open a jewelry shop downtown
certainly a nice skill but a bit time consuming on top of making and selling the jewelry when retail space is available and just requires some annoying paperwork.
"Way back in the day, i built a huge ecommerce site with just html." like this was truly not possible unless you were having people call or something to actually place orders, i don't believe?? i'm not even sure it was possible to have a form send to a server without something other than HTML
lol what an incredible deep dive. i love that in 1995 they programmed the site to actually be a clickable semi-functioning site. i want to steal the UI for a charity pizza event or something
Look, you already have to be an artist, an accountant, marketing person, graphic designer, why can't you also be a front end web developer too! You know, with all of that cool free time you have laying around
i would like to add that WP (and probably WC) are front end AND back end. it may not seem like a lot of back end stuff to someone who does a lot of back end, but it's difficult and easy to mess up if you don't know anything about back end security etc
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To do this I paused book reviewing, sewing, and most of my normal online activity for a solid six weeks. Just to get that done.
You should be able to make goblin hordes, glass bolos, etc. and not be stuck coding.
certainly a nice skill but a bit time consuming on top of making and selling the jewelry when retail space is available and just requires some annoying paperwork.