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Also Adobe XD. I know people give Adobe crap for coming to the party late, but the new tool is quite good with prototyping and web sharing built in, plus they launched freemium model. Framer is great for more advanced prototyping needs w/ animations/transitions/etc, but the XD is pretty good and fast for many needs, and it's Mac + PC.

Quick comments/question from a designer:

I've played around with TakeShape a little bit but have yet to deploy anything, but am interested in using it on projects moving forward. It looks like this is what I've been searching for as a CMS replacement.

I'm coming from years of freelance WordPress projects and from what I can tell, if you've done any theming in WordPress, especially with the Advanced Custom Fields plugin and custom post types, the transition to TakeShape seems pretty doable. I love the drag-and-drop modeling all in one place. Nice that it's visually baked into the CMS and not a separate plugin/screen/etc.

So question: for someone like me who can do some front-end code, but isn't a "back end" developer, how would you suggest I start to play with building templates using TakeShape? What do you think is the best path forward testing a site build/design quickly to make the call over something like WP?

Thanks.