Hello All,
I need some start to publish our website, I have created a static 8 page website using Bolt.new & have a ready to go setup using Netlify. I am not a Developer.
Any help appreciated.
Max.
Hi Max (@gdx),
Welcome to the Dato community, and thank you for the question!
I have a bit of bad news for you, unfortunately⌠I think our service is going to be quite difficult to use if you are not a developer 
We are not a traditional CMS (like Wordpress or Drupal) where you can easily manage your entire site. Weâre a âheadlessâ service that only provides APIs for developers to hook up to their own website frontends.
If you are not a developer and donât know what those terms means, no worries at all, but I think it would make your life easier to use a website builder service like Wix.com, Squarespace.com, etc. instead of a headless CMS like ours. You donât have to do any coding to get a website up and running with one of those services. (Weâre not affiliated with them; those are just some popular examples.)
Headless CMS services like ours are great when you have a developer or a team of them to do a lot of custom coding, but if you donât have that experience, it is going to be quite difficult.
I can point you at the DatoCMS Academy, which is our resource for developers looking to start using headless systems, but that is still aimed at people with prior coding knowledge whoâve done other development before.
If you have no coding experience at all, this will be an uphill battle, and I wouldnât recommend it Bolt, ChatGPT etc can maybe help you with part of the setup, but if you run into any issues, we wouldnât be able to support you. Customer frontends are typically out of the scope of our support. Maybe at most we can show you how to hook up a basic API call, but any future page changes etc. would all have to be done by you or a developer you hire, or you will have to struggle with back-and-forth prompting with an AI until you get something that sort of works. I think thatâs going to be a lot more trouble than itâs worth, vs just using a page builder service.
Youâre also going to run into an awkward situation where, if and when you run into problems, you wonât know who to contact for help (Bolt, Netlify, us, a third-party developer)⌠because no one vendor will be responsible for your website. If you use a page builder service, you just have that one relationship with that one vendor, and their support can help you with any of their systems. I think that would be a nicer fit for someone working on a personal site with no prior experience.
What do you think? Does that sound reasonable? Sorry for the bad news!