Landing Page Builder

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2/14/2021

I've always thought that a page builder would allow me to build better quality landing pages in less time. It can be quite tedious writing code especially if you aren't working in a nice development environment or even using a code editor. I find the WordPress editor quite cumbersome to work with - especially considering it doesn't have a lot of the features that I've grown accustom to with Visual Studio Code.

I found this code editor on codecanyon for $30 USD, which I just had to try. It took me a few hours of work to get it "roughly" working. I ended up launching it on Heroku. I decided to set-up a sub-domain on my primary .ca domain to access the page builder. I had to remove the SSL certificate from the domain in order to get it to work. I was getting the following error message:

Mixed Content: The page at 'https://cb-builder.herokuapp.com/design.php?id=NWQ3YjUyNGQ2YWNiYg==&type=other' was loaded over HTTPS, but requested an insecure frame 'http://cb-builder.herokuapp.com/assets/templates/other/5d7b524d6acbb/'. This request has been blocked; the content must be served over HTTPS.

There's an issue with the PHP script that I still need to figure out. The simplest and quickest fix was for me to just remove the SSL certificate - for now.

I'd like to use the page builder at work for streamlining the development of landing pages and HTML emails. Whenever I design a new landing page, my plan is to add it to this page builder to reduce the development time required for me to build similar pages in the future. I also think that some of my co-workers that don't know HTML might be able to use it to build landing pages and HTML emails without having to edit code.