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Best solution in 2023 for a resource website?
My Mom has about a hundred lesson plans for elementary school teachers.
Currently, they are all scattered across a WordPress blog. We want to make them available in an organized manner.
What is the best tool to make a website for her?
Tool should have:
1. WYSIWYG editor (no Markdown she doesn't get that)
2. Quick to setup and maintain.
3. Easy to create new categories (visual lessons, vs audio lessons)
Potentials I am considering:
1. Webflow
2. Squarespace
3. ?
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@cameron_smith3 Hadn't thought of Notion. Any good examples of a notion resource site? Thanks!
@joshdance
https://www.anotioneer.com/ looked pretty good.
https://help.replicastudios.com/ is where I used it before, this simple structure might work.
@joshdance Sure!
BCMS (https://thebcms.com) is a great CMS because it allows you to easily create a content structure as per your needs. Especially when it comes to e-learning, it is necessary to be able to write structured content.
For example, some of the must-have things that come to my mind:
- Being able to model your content structure for each lesson
- Modelling each course's structure
- Integrations: you can easily integrate other services (newsletters, embedding, sharing..)
- Multi-Channel Delivery: At any point, you can decide to create a mobile app, for example. With BCMS, you can easily distribute content on a website, mobile app, and many other destinations.
Of course, all the above applies to people who are willing to develop their websites from scratch and thus make them 100% as per their needs, fast and secure.
Hi Josh,
As a former teacher who shared lesson plans on WordPress, I feel your mother's pain. Before migrating the content to a new platform, have you tried categorisation etc? WordPRess allows search, and with the right categories and tags, it can become easy to find lesson plans. I've seen it implemented by other teachers with much more content on their blog than mine, so perhaps it's worth a shot?
Here's an example (it's in French, sorry for that!): https://communfrancais.com//blog/
@geetanjalishrivastava Thanks, looked at the example. I will consider just setting up categories. I worry it will be fragile and I will have to baby sit the content to keep it working.
@joshdance Hi...I was looking at the launch of Twinr and wondering if that would be a good solution for your mother's work?
@geetanjalishrivastava Looks like they are focusing on mobile? Or is this the right one? https://twinr.dev/
Build Webflow CMS and then share with her via editor view. Best for mass content creation for those who are less tech savvy, imo.
@seanlane Sorry should have been more clear. She has a bunch of free resources that she wants people to be able to search, read and share.
We actually use Gumroad to sell a few bigger pieces of content. We will be switching to Lemonsqueezy soon. But we don't want all the content paid.
Ghost is nice (I use it for Rosieland) and easy to add on paid membership if required.
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