What do you use for your marketing website?

To be honest, I used to feel the same way about WordPress but things have improved a lot.

I build all my sites with GeneratePress or Blocksy theme now and instead of using slow page builders I use Gutenberg blocks, My 2 personal favourites are GenerateBlocks and Stackable. You can build pretty much anything with this combo.

You get lazy loading all that out of the box so 95+ page speed scores are easy achievable.

I've found Webflow and Cardd to be really simple but flexible platforms for marketing websites and landing pages. Webflow for more elaborate sites and Cardd for quick, cost-effective landing pages. Hope that helps! :)

Can’t beat good old WordPress if set up correctly and not bloated with a million plugins.

First of all, WordPress is neither outdated nor slow.

From my experience as a developer, blogger & agency owner, WordPress is a nightmare if you intend to use it as a plug-and-play solution to create landing pages fast.

On the other hand, it is the most customizable solution out there if you have the skills, the budget, or the time to learn. I see it as the best scalable solution in the long run for blogs and content websites.

Check out https://dorik.com/

This is currently my favorite marketing site builder. Super powerful and flexible but way less work then webflow.

This is such a good question! There is no right answer but it sounds like your current solution is costing you a lot of time and effort to do minor updates, which means it's quite inefficient (particularly annoying if you're a small team). I personally use webflow a lot with my clients as it's very flexible and, at the point you do want to move to something more custom coded, the code export is the cleanest I've found from any no-code builders.
If you'd like, pop me an email! Happy to have a quick coffee chat to see if I can help at all ☺️

We're using Divi on WordPress right now, with a path toward SimplyStatic plugin as a static export from WP for performance reasons.

The static version will end up on Firebase hosting sometime in the next month...

That way we get an easy to modify marketing CMS with all the performance and security that comes from serving up static files.

Hey, I've been looking into this a bit myself and I'm happy to share what I've ended up with.
My marketing site is built on top of Middleman, a ruby-based static site generator. Views are almost entirely plain HTML and CSS (using tailwindui components), with a hint of Vue. For forms, I'm looking into Formspree, but haven't gotten around to actually using them yet.
Not live yet, but it looks like this -

Managing the data for the marketing site is definitely going to be tricky.
For my landing page, I've extracted everything into a big YAML data file, that Middleman can read in directly, so I can edit that file without touching the actual view code.
Looks like this -

You can see, on the right is the datafile, and that can be edited independent of the actual code.
Not sure how it'll go long-term, but so far it's worked fine for me.
Middleman also has a decent blog system built in, where you can just write blog posts in markdown files, but I might look into some sort of headless CMS to simplify things.

I've also posted a bit more about this on my twitter profile - @hrrsnbbnt - which you might find interesting.
Hope this helped!

hugo for blog type content, statically built nextjs for landing pages that need some code
nextjs image optimization is a bit poor otherwise I'd use it all the time

I built https://versoly.com/ for this.

The amount of time founders/marketers waste maintaining their marketing site is crazy.

Websites should load fast and be very easy to edit.

I wouldn’t think of it as marketing your website. You want to market your offer and have the site highlight what you offer.

For clients I’ve moved into using gatsby and what ever CMS clients wish to have and make it seamless for them to update information, add pages, or products.