The CMS Challenge: Creating More Designers While Keeping Code Green, with Pete Markiewicz
Channel: SustainableUX
Date: 13/02/2016

The rise of custom CMS systems aimed at non-web designers like Wix and SquareSpace is enabling a new wave of website - many of which fail on criteria for web sustainability. Do CMS systems aimed at non-coders make the web more, or less green? What principles to non-coder designers need to follow when using a CMS to ensure their site is sustainable?

Right now, WordPress is nearly 20% of all websites. Other CMS systems like Wix, Weebly, and SquareSpace are specifically targeted at designers, promising a "code free world" of unlimited design. In practice, these sites may be encouraging design that makes the web more bloated and less sustainable. I will consider whether the rise of non-HTML editors is likely to raise or lower the sustainability of the Internet.