LiveCanvas

Whether you are a junior webmaster or a seasoned full-stack developer, you've surely heard these lines:

Custom coding by hand your themes assures maximum power, flexibility and optimization if you're a pro developer, but can be a slow and painful process.
As a quicker alternative, using page builders makes it faster but has its drawbacks. They usually spit a mixed soup of DIVs which of course is sub-optimal in terms of SEO, speed, and code maintainability. Lots of black boxes here, and no easy way out.
On another side WordPress, if used with the wrong themes and plugins, can turn from being a good friend into a dog-slow nightmare. The much-abused "piling plugins on plugins" approach to web design results in a unmaintainable, poor performance website.
Unfortunately, most people will agree: there's quite a lot of truth in these sentences.

So, here is our challenge:

Can we still develop fast, powerful websites using a mixed approach, bringing the best of both worlds?

Let's try to focus on this question and propose a solution.