Aaah, the good old days, I owned a Linotronic. I too have been through the many changes heralded by new technologies, many with the aim of bringing design and production to the masses. They mostly failed, the same reason much of this will fail, either everything looked the same or was an appalling end user experience. Takes years to learn typography, never mind its only words and no-one notices, except they do. If you supply templates, the template will be used with some new pictures and a couple new boxes, but in the end still looks the same as the the web site before. You can usually spot a Wix or Wordpress site a mile off, or a Blurb book for that matter. Does this matter? Well that depends on how seriously you consider your individuality and brand to be. I often used an example with clients, you buy a box of chocolates in France and they wrap it in nice paper and give it a beautiful presentation, in the UK you buy a box of chocolates and you get "you wanna bag", its about pride and showing your customer how important you consider them to be. Graphic design is not about making things look pretty it is about achieving results, knowing how to engage the customer. I liked Muse for that reason, I could design very individual sites without the horrible constraints of off the shelf web builders. I learned to code for the same reason, not because I am retrograde in my thinking as someone on this forum told me, it was because it gave me freedom from the constraints of a program that pushed me into concentrating on trying to get round its limitations rather than designing. Got that off my chest!
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