Website Builder Best Suited for Caspio

[kpcollier]

We currently use Weebly to host our pages. However, since the Weebly-Square merger, we have had nothing but problems and are looking for alternatives.

I would like to hear what website builder some of you use and your experiences with them. 

For some insight, our Weebly pages are pretty much 100% custom code with Caspio pages embedded in them. Nothing too complex, just some HTML/CSS/JS. We don't really use any of the elements from the actual Website Builder. 

My client would rather keep using a website builder instead of self-hosting our own pages. Currently, WordPress.com is at the top of our list, but I have also seen a post on here stating Webflow worked well for Caspio Integration. I understand that Wix and GoDaddy are out of the question due to their embedded code going into iFrames.

Any insight is appreciated! 

[GrumpyRick]

Webflow works great. Been using it with Caspio for several years.

[kpcollier]

19 hours ago, GrumpyRick said:

Webflow works great. Been using it with Caspio for several years.

Thanks @GrumpyRick. I did a bit of research on Webflow and messed with the free account a little bit, and it seems pretty sweet. 

The one downside I saw was the 100 static page limit. However, it seems with the use of Collections, this could be extended by a great deal. Do you by chance use Collection pages on Webflow?

[GoodBoy]

Hello! I asked Caspio Support about this last year and here is what they said, 

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The best third party hosting sites for Caspio are Weebly and WordPress since you can just use the common embed deploy code in deploying your DataPages on these sites even without the WordPress plugin if you will use WordPress. On the other hand, GoDaddy, Squarespace, and Wix are no longer fully supported by Caspio since they already have their own methods for accepting codes and scripts. For example, in some cases, it automatically sets embedding type as iFrame, which prevents features such as parameter passing. 

 

[DaveS]

On 9/13/2022 at 3:14 PM, kpcollier said:

Thanks @GrumpyRick. I did a bit of research on Webflow and messed with the free account a little bit, and it seems pretty sweet. 

The one downside I saw was the 100 static page limit. However, it seems with the use of Collections, this could be extended by a great deal. Do you by chance use Collection pages on Webflow?

Hi, @kpcollier - just curious if you wound up with Webflow or another solution.  I'm about 16 months into Caspio+Webflow and pretty happy with what I've been able to accomplish... also open to sharing ideas / solutions with others with a similar configuration.

[kpcollier]

@DaveS I did not. I ended up staying with Weebly. I really only use Weebly as a place to host the pages. I build our pages with html/css/js and just post the code on a weebly page, it's been working out pretty well for us. Not entirely sure if the issues I was experiencing before with Weebly have been solved or not because we use a different technique to build the pages now.

Pretty much what we do is create a blank Weebly page for each webpage we need and add two code blocks to the pages. One code block includes our page structure/navigation and the other includes the Caspio deployment script. It does suck having to update the navigation code for each page when there is a change, but with 150+ pages it still only takes me 5 minutes or so, so not bad. I'm sure there's a better way to do this, I just haven't had the time to give it a try. 

[DaveS]

Interesting - and not that different from what I'm doing with Webflow.  I'm using their collection pages, which works pretty nicely with Caspio.  One collection has two embeds (both caspio - a menu and a data page), the other collection has just one embed (a data page).  For each Caspio data page I just have a Webflow collection record with the Appkey of the data page.  It's been very helpful in managing development vs. test environments because I'm not really managing pages - just the collection list (a csv that can be downloaded and uploaded into another environment).

Anyway, I appreciate the response!