Is there any gallery of sorts that showcase what kinds of websites you can build with ERPNext? I would like to see the esthetic side of it. In other words, is it capable of creating a dazzling website that is suitable for a business?
Edit: Apparently, it’s Frappe Builder, not ERPNext. Sorry — I am this new. So far, I have got this impression that Builder is good DIY website builders. It does not seem to cater to those who want to build a website quickly from a given theme. Am I right?
You can make websites through Frappe Builder and Frappe Page Builder. To my best knowledge Frappe Framework is capable to handle Dynamic and static website both.
This is a discussion that has been going on for some time now. I am always surprised that no one else seems to have the same dilemma.
Builder’s approach is risky, but when you use it a little, you realize its potential.
Now, for those who not only lack basic knowledge (because you need it) of HTML and CSS, but also don’t have a designer’s eye, so to speak, it’s impossible to create anything decent.
They added blocks, which is a great idea, but there’s so little you can do with them that you end up frustrated. Go to frappe.io and you can’t do even 1% of what’s there, although I’ve mentioned on other occasions that they have a good base of blocks to incorporate.
Builder will have very little adoption until there are templates or blocks that allow you to do at least the same as with the old version of Frappe. And that’s the first hurdle: you can’t do the same without the knowledge that the latter provides.
There is a PR that has been in the works for a while now, as I calculate that it is the starting point for then incorporating templates, and even add a market. Without this PR, for example, no one can create a site/template and pass it on to you, so I think it makes sens.
@federico_calvo, thanks a lot for your detailed explanation! Very happy to have my vague impressions validated.
After I posted my original message, I did a bit more studying about Frappe Builder (Remember I was and still am a super noob). I had somehow got it into my head that Frappe Builder was kind of like Adobe DreamWeaver — you author a website with it and publish it somewhere.
It isn’t and that’s not how it works, right? The assumption is that you build your website basically on your Frappe production system. I am not sure if you can design a static website with Frappe Builder and publish it somewhere where Frappe Framework is not present. Probably not, but please correct me if I’m wrong.
The way I understand it, Frappe Builder is tightly coupled with other Frappe apps such as ERPNext, and is meant to create dynamic websites that utilizes the data created on those apps. And those dynamic websites cannot be decoupled from the Frappe Framework.
Right now, I only need to create a website for information dissemination, so I’m better off using tools like Hugo, which seem to come with a decent number of themes.
Another thing I wonder about is this. Builder follows the WYSIWYG principle. Is it helpful in creating reusable components? Apparently you can, just like @purveshjain says he did, but only within the same Builder instance?
@purveshjain, I checked out your sites. Very clean and beautiful. Great job!!!