Don’t Know How To Code? Use Scroll Kit To Build Your Next Website

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13 points·bhartzer··6 comments

It's the Geocities site builder...they've made the Geocities site builder... -edit- I'm struggling to find images of their old editor, but I remember the Homestead site builder being close to this, if not more powerful: http://www.callas.me/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/homestead.jp...

I thought you were just joking with that but their site looks an awful lot like Geocities did way back when it was still relevant!

I've said it before, but Scrollkit is what I always wanted Dreamweaver to be like. Maybe I had the wrong expectations of DW but I really think Scrollkit is going to help people who think they're hopeless online see that they can make good stuff too. They're lowering the barrier-to-entry for making a great looking page to almost nil.

The catch is that when you can control every pixel, you have to control every pixel if you don't want things to look crummy. Scrollkit is going to have to overcome that in some way if they don't want it to get stuck as the MS Paint of the web.

They need an 'import wordpress template' feature.

Looks good if my 12yo sister wants to build a website about her new kitty. Not sure my father wants to use Scroll Kit to publish a website about is guesthouse. A basic wordpress+template is still a better solution.

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