![]() It might be possible, but I've never tried. I'm not sure about adding a third-party CMS. It just won't be modifiable throught the program's visual tools. BSS is, of course, limited to Bootstrap, but you can always add your own HTML, CSS and Javascript. Being able to create and save your own component blocks is a HUGE time-saver. I can prototype a site faster in BSS than any other program. The forums are fairly active, but newbies don't get a lot of love because most PG users are advanced and don't want to waste time explaining things like "what are media queries." In the three years I've owned PG, it's had one major update (ver 4 to ver 5) and numerous smaller updates. It's pretty fairly priced (I think it's like $175 for the year.) The developers are pretty good about fixing bugs and releasing new features. If you want to upgrade it after a year, you need to renew. You download it and install it on your machine, and you can use it forever. They have an annual subscription plan, but you own the software. Of the three, Pinegrow probably gives you the most bang for your buck. You should probably look there for more info. There are discussions on the Pinegrow forums of alternate ways to build third-party CMS managers into a Pinegrow built website. On the other hand, Pinegrow has a Wordpress version which allows you to build Wordpress sites, so that solves your CMS problem. And It produces clean, semantic code.Īs for CMS, Pinegrow has it's own CMS-like features where you can make parts of pages "editable" by someone else who has Pinegrow, but it's not a true CMS. In terms of static sites, there's really nothing you cannot do with Pinegrow. I would actually describe Pinegrow as more of a visual website editor as opposed to a builder. In addition to various frameworks, Pinegrow has robust support for both flexbox and CSS grid. ![]() You can even open sites directly from URLs. ![]() You can buy a Bootstrap or Foundation or HTML5 template and open it directly. You can open multiple pages open at once, and multiple sizes of each page, so it can make building sites for different viewports pretty easy (especially since in now supports multiple monitors.) Pinegrow is the only one that will allow you to use third-party templates. What you see in the workspace is exactly what the site will look like. One big advantage of Pinegrow is that everything you do is live. If you can hand code, you'll probably have no trouble with it, but there is a bit of a learning curve to the interface. It doesn't restrict you in any way, but it is not very easy for a beginner to grok, and it definitely requires a good familiarity with code to really be able to do a lot of stuff. It's probably the most open-ended website builder out there. I have used Pinegrow extensively (since 2017) and built a few sites with it.
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