I used to be using Weebly for my websites, but then since beginning of last year I was looking around for self hosted WYSIWYG solutions.
Must of literally gone through every damn WYSIWYG editor, meaning as the drag and drop ones that are like Weebly.
Emailed about 20 different companies asking the same question am I able to have full access control over the html/css as well, just like I can with Weebly and with Tumblr. I understood a small bit of HTML/CSS, enough to see ok this goes here and ah if I edit this, this happens. When it came to something so damn simple like a fixed cover background, could any of these editors provide me an option to do this? Nope, and I had no ability to just add the code to do it either.
Oh and only a few of the companies got back to me, one within 2 hrs, one in a few days, another in a few months.
Jump to Oct last year, when I was looking for a free TeamSpeak host, I came across InstaFree.com.
I asked Bryan (the admin) if he had any advice on what I was looking for. He suggested Wordpress.
So I played with Wordpress, but quickly discovered it didn't fit for me for a static site, though, for blogging I love it.
I looked again for WYSIWYG options, but then I just got fed up and decided sod this, I'm going to damn well learn to hand code my website myself.
I quickly found Brackets.io and my gosh, though it's a code editor not a WYSIWYG, the live updating in your browser, just perfect for what I needed. Followed along a html/css lesson series on YouTube that TheNewBoston put together.
Though there was 50 lessons, by the 11th lesson, I faded off doing my own thing. And rightly so I did around then, because some of the next lessons was about things I found out myself that which were more updated methods.
Brackets, love it a lot, though I am now using Notepad++ a lot more and Chrome's developer tools. As when you have your website data stored on a seperate machine to what you're editing on, Brackets grinds to a halt.
Really glad that I found InstaFree, because that was the boost I needed to get away from paying Weebly another $48 a year, which duplicates for every other site you want upgraded.