Building a new personal site in 2023 evenwith some existing web dev skills, the answer is just Freamer, og have?

if i knew how to code, i would not rely on an external company's products to make my website, but that's just me

+1. Mine is just html and css, because I don’t really want to rely on a company/platform for something this “personal”. But then again I always loved building random shit on my website since like 2000 when I had to ftp files to my server sooo that’s just me 🙈

I have a fairly negative opinion of builder services in general because the time you invest in learning their tools, you could learn how to code and not get your knowledge wiped out by a redesign, or price increases, or acquisitions.

I ditched Squarespace at the beginning of this year for exactly those reasons. My site’s not great, but I built it myself and know why it works.