u/Careless_Eye_3855

Everyone keeps telling me I need a proper website for my small fashion brand. Right now most of my sales come through Instagram and DMs, and it works okay, so I'm not sure whether a site would actually bring in orders or just become one more thing to maintain and pay for.

If you run a small clothing/fashion label, I'd love to know:

1. Did a website actually change anything — sales, customer trust, wholesale enquiries?

2. How long before it was worth the money?

What did you use (Shopify, WooCommerce, custom) and would you pick it again?

3. Anything you'd skip if you were starting over?

\*\*Honest answers welcome, including "don't bother."\*\*

Everyone keeps telling me I need a proper website for my small fashion brand. Right now most of my sales come through Instagram and DMs, and it works okay, so I'm not sure whether a site would actually bring in orders or just become one more thing to maintain and pay for.

If you run a small clothing/fashion label, I'd love to know:

1. Did a website actually change anything — sales, customer trust, wholesale enquiries?

2. How long before it was worth the money?

What did you use (Shopify, WooCommerce, custom) and would you pick it again?

3. Anything you'd skip if you were starting over?

**Honest answers welcome, including "don't bother."**

Everyone keeps telling me I need a proper website for my small fashion brand. Right now most of my sales come through Instagram and DMs, and it works okay, so I'm not sure whether a site would actually bring in orders or just become one more thing to maintain and pay for.

If you run a small clothing/fashion label, I'd love to know:

1. Did a website actually change anything — sales, customer trust, wholesale enquiries?

2. How long before it was worth the money?

What did you use (Shopify, WooCommerce, custom) and would you pick it again?

3. Anything you'd skip if you were starting over?

**Honest answers welcome, including "don't bother."**

Everyone keeps telling me I need a proper website for my small fashion brand. Right now most of my sales come through Instagram and DMs, and it works okay, so I'm not sure whether a site would actually bring in orders or just become one more thing to maintain and pay for.

If you run a small clothing/fashion label, I'd love to know:

1. Did a website actually change anything — sales, customer trust, wholesale enquiries?

2. How long before it was worth the money?

What did you use (Shopify, WooCommerce, custom) and would you pick it again?

3. Anything you'd skip if you were starting over?

**Honest answers welcome, including "don't bother."**

Curious what everyone else landed on. Still on astro-icon? A fork? Raw SVGs?

No new releases on astro-icon in roughly two years and a few forks floating around for newer Astro versions. I've been using astro-iconset instead of the same kind of API, also zero load time, multi dir. works fine for me.

Alright let's settle this once and for all 👀

Team WordPress: flexible, huge plugin ecosystem, been around forever

Team Webflow: clean visual builder, faster to design, no plugin hell

If you had to pick ONE for a client project today, which are you going with and why?

Bonus points for horror stories 😅

Alright let's settle this once and for all 👀

Team WordPress: flexible, huge plugin ecosystem, been around forever

Team Webflow: clean visual builder, faster to design, no plugin hell

If you had to pick ONE for a client project today, which are you going with and why?

Bonus points for horror stories 😅

Been doing wp work and my setup feels stuck in wp-cli, and a terminal 2018. laragon for local, vscode, wp-open just to watch debug.log lol.

Is everyone on localwp / ddev now or does that not matter much? and the php version thing across older sites drives me nuts, curious if you just keep separate stacks or something smarter

whatever you're using, even if it's ugly, I want to hear it...

Been doing wp work and my setup feels stuck in 2018. laragon for local, vscode, wp-cli, and a terminal open just to watch debug.log lol.

Is everyone on localwp / ddev now or does that not matter much? and the php version thing across older sites drives me nuts, curious if you just keep separate stacks or something smarter

whatever you're using, even if it's ugly, I want to hear it...

Been doing wp work and my setup feels stuck in 2018. laragon for local, vscode, wp-cli, and a terminal open just to watch debug.log lol.

Is everyone on localwp / ddev now or does that not matter much? and the php version thing across older sites drives me nuts, curious if you just keep separate stacks or something smarter

whatever you're using, even if it's ugly, I want to hear it...