CMS for a non-techie musician?
reddit / selfhosted

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Positive-Protection1 · 2023-09-26 18:35

Hey folks,

My partner is a musician. She writes and performs music, animated
videos, and some visual art. She wants a single place to reference
everything she does. I stood her up a Wordpress instance on the ol'
server in the basement, but it's not scratching her itch. It's just
too clunky and technical for her, and she's getting frustrated with it
fast. She's not looking for a text-heavy "blog".

\- She wants something with a more visual interface. (She has
mentioned Squarespace, but that might just be good marketing at work.)

\- Her content will mostly consist of links and audio/video files with
some text.

\- The ability to post an announcement with integrated email lists
would be a nice bonus.

\- Visual interest / appeal / creativity is extremely important. HTML5
FTW.

\- I am quite technical (software engineer) but don't have mountains
of free time. If it requires a little command line linux-fu once in a
while, that's fine.

I had a look at the great list at
[https://github.com/Kickball/awesome-
selfhosted](https://github.com/Kickball/awesome-selfhosted) and it's a
bit overwhelming.

Anyone have any suggestions?

Also, has anyone thought about adding some reviews or feature
comparisons to that awesome-selfhosted list?

Thanks!

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FunkMunki · 2023-09-26 18:40

Take a look at [ghost.org](https://ghost.org). That's what I've been
using for about a year now and I love it.

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HeroinPigeon · 2023-09-26 21:06

I use bludit but heavily customised it for a podcast you might want to
give it a look it may or may not be what you are looking for

CSS can customise what you want 99% of the time on it and that's about
as technical as it gets. You can use raw html or the built in editor
or even some custom editors that people made as plugins.