Hey, just wanted to drop this here. It’s a technical follow-up to The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Static Sites which was reasonably popular, and explains the components of a static site’s stack.
Hey, just wanted to drop this here. It’s a technical follow-up to The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Static Sites which was reasonably popular, and explains the components of a static site’s stack.
The advantage of static site generators is you have your template and it’s filled by the data for each page. It’s generally very simple and intuitive.
The problem with doing it your way is if you need to change a common element you have to edit every page. Instead of just changing the template.
Markdown to html just works so well as all your pages are structured the same.
I use PHP to generate anything repetitive. With that and CSS it’s pretty easy to make site wide changes.