Anyone have experience handing off an Astro site to non-technical stakeholders? I'm doing some pro-bono work for a charity, who's currently shelling out precious funds for squarespace. They brought me on to help them migrate to wordpress to save money, but wordpress is still pretty expensive IMO. I want to build them something they can host statically for free so all they have to pay for is the domain. My concern is about long term maintenance: is editing markdown files and pushing them to git something that's hard to do? Is it reasonable for me to ask the people who are going to work at this charity in 5 years install and learn git?
#Handing off to non-technical users
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I'd definitely be against raw markdown files. A CMS will give a much healthier, long term experience. Wordpress is definitely first-class for non-technical users. You shouldn't need anything more than a base tier at a provider that allows you access to the REST API, but as an alternative, there are some good CMS free tiers out there.
- Builder.io - I've only tried this a little, but it would allow your users plenty of control over the site, without needing someone with knowledge on-hand. Their free tier fits 10 users & you'll probably never pass the visual views on a static built site: https://www.builder.io/m/pricing
- I've not tried Sanity, but their free tier should also accommodate this: https://www.sanity.io/pricing
- I'm trying out Contentful later this week to update our docs. Another free plan that should be plenty for this project: https://www.contentful.com/pricing/