After realizing what a task Jekyll could be (given it required 4 different applications), I am presenting Pagecloud. It's fairly underwhelming, which is part of the reason why this is early. Actually, it's most of the reason. There was nothing for me to substantially mess with to make any major changes. Unlike anything so far, Pagecloud is rigidly set on being used for 1 of 2 things: businesses, or freelancers.
Pagecloud does not feature any downloadables; everything is done on it's website, online. In fact, if you go to this link in the next 11 or so days you can sort of browse what I threw together. As I've done with the last few platforms, my goal is to see how easy things are to set up, how effective they are with security, how easy it is to customize, and to present what I gather is what the platform is best suited for. Pagecloud leaves very little room for me to investigate most of these categories, which is disappointing, as it is the first platform that is subscription based.
Setup is the big thing that Pagecloud does well, along with customizing pages themselves.
This was after some messing around; its easy to drag and drop things right into your page, all premade with all the different layers easily editable, with options for every single object, as seen above. It's surprisingly easy to use, and it's all done in a web browser.
This was also a nice surprise; very easy switching between mobile and desktop views, with auto resizing for mobile view & warnings for changes made to the mobile view.
There are also guidelines for adding things; I wasn't able to get a screenshot showing these, because Command is one of the buttons needed to screenshot, and pressing it would make the guidelines go away; presumably it's a hotkey in Pagecloud to make things easier for you.
The guidelines help make things even, and its very easy to make links to anything, including emails or other websites. Unfortunately, that's about it on the good side of things. It's good that it's easy to add links and make things symmetrical, because everyone on the website is treated as a seperate object. The menu above had to be manually inserted, edited, set to a link, and set to go to the right page. And that's before I noticed that they feature the same thing on the bottom, too. There is no way to access the CSS and make pages site-wide, only page-by-page.
The closest you can get is javascript, but that is also on a page by page basis.
When adding a new page, you are able to browse all of the themes they have available; but they are all independent, and are all the same variations of "Home", "Contact", "Reviews", and "Prices". And if you add a page from a different theme it totally clashes with everything else you have. Frankly, they aren't themes, despite the name; they really should be called "Templates", because that's how they act. The screenshot above is from the "site settings" page; the "duplicate" option came from me clicking on the gear button, normally meant for, say, settings. It's a premium service that costs money and requires lots of manual work.
There are, additionally, no extensions to add or browse besides the javascript. My final thought is that this is a platform for ONLY businesses; maybe freelancers, but not web designers. Something better could be done with most of the other platforms, and bigger businesses might need the additional data ie page hits that this doesn't provide.
Pagecloud does not feature any downloadables; everything is done on it's website, online. In fact, if you go to this link in the next 11 or so days you can sort of browse what I threw together. As I've done with the last few platforms, my goal is to see how easy things are to set up, how effective they are with security, how easy it is to customize, and to present what I gather is what the platform is best suited for. Pagecloud leaves very little room for me to investigate most of these categories, which is disappointing, as it is the first platform that is subscription based.
Setup is the big thing that Pagecloud does well, along with customizing pages themselves.
This was also a nice surprise; very easy switching between mobile and desktop views, with auto resizing for mobile view & warnings for changes made to the mobile view.
There are also guidelines for adding things; I wasn't able to get a screenshot showing these, because Command is one of the buttons needed to screenshot, and pressing it would make the guidelines go away; presumably it's a hotkey in Pagecloud to make things easier for you.
The guidelines help make things even, and its very easy to make links to anything, including emails or other websites. Unfortunately, that's about it on the good side of things. It's good that it's easy to add links and make things symmetrical, because everyone on the website is treated as a seperate object. The menu above had to be manually inserted, edited, set to a link, and set to go to the right page. And that's before I noticed that they feature the same thing on the bottom, too. There is no way to access the CSS and make pages site-wide, only page-by-page.
The closest you can get is javascript, but that is also on a page by page basis.
When adding a new page, you are able to browse all of the themes they have available; but they are all independent, and are all the same variations of "Home", "Contact", "Reviews", and "Prices". And if you add a page from a different theme it totally clashes with everything else you have. Frankly, they aren't themes, despite the name; they really should be called "Templates", because that's how they act. The screenshot above is from the "site settings" page; the "duplicate" option came from me clicking on the gear button, normally meant for, say, settings. It's a premium service that costs money and requires lots of manual work.
There are, additionally, no extensions to add or browse besides the javascript. My final thought is that this is a platform for ONLY businesses; maybe freelancers, but not web designers. Something better could be done with most of the other platforms, and bigger businesses might need the additional data ie page hits that this doesn't provide.
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