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I use Jekyll
It's pretty much fire and forget, only needing to run a script to regenerate the page occasionally. I don't have to keep CMS software updated against vulnerabilities.
Hugo
Honestly, for static websites I've been doing it the old fashioned way of simply having certain HTML files coded manually.
I did try Jekyll and its amazing but for a 5 page website I thought to go the manual way of 5 html files.
Mobirise
org-mode.org
carrd.co or HTML5UP and Pixelarity are all pretty great for single-paged static websites (iirc all 3 are run by the same guy)
In truth I'd like to figure out how to extract the style sheet for Firefox reader-mode, so I can make all my pages look like they are already in that mode. Anyone know how to do that? Earlier I wanted to make them all look like Firefox's RSS rendering, but they disabled that.
https://github.com/mozilla/readability
This might be a good start
VuePress
Thanks, but that is a JS library that de-crapifies the DOM of an existing page. I'm looking to simulate the visual style of how Firerox presents the pages after de-crapification. I don't have to de-crapify my pages since I write them without crap to begin with .
+1 Jekyll
Love carrd.co. Renewing for another year on BF is an annual ritual now. Ten website plan, three in use ... seven idling
Support is awesome too. Last time I did a feature request, it took like a week for the new feature go live
We're using Jekyll for our websites.
Jekyll & Coda 2
Geany cross platform IDE.
Visit a site. Select reader mode. Hit F12. Click on Style Editor. Mouse-over aboutReader.css and narrate.css and click the SAVE link that appears by each.
Blogging : publii
Landing page / simple web : bootstrap studio / mobirise
Either a compiler/transformer (like e.g. markdown -> Html) or an editor with Html support. Where possible I prefer the former approach because I strongly dislike XML.
Out of the common static site generators, I haven't found a single one which I liked. Either they're too complex (made for blogs), or written in languages I don't like.
So I have a custom page generator - it's just 30 lines of Python that apply Jinja2 templating to all *.tmpl files in a folder and exports them as .html to a second folder.
I prefer Hugo over Jekyll, especially for sites with lots of pages as Hugo is faster, but I also like getkirby as I know PHP and it's really nice overall but costly.
How are people publishing. Generate and SFTP/FTP (e.g Filezilla)?
what about github pages https://pages.github.com/ ?
rsync
I've used Hugo, too - very nice and super fast. Jekyll is OK, but I'm not a ruby person.
I've also used Pelican, which is python.
Right...the main things with SSGs is some kind of templating + Markdown conversion.
Holy guacamole mostaccioli. I bought a Kirby 2 personal license in 2015 for $17. Kirby 3 is $109?!? Even the upgrade from v2 is 79EUR.
Hugo is pretty good. I really like Gatsby but it's very complex and would be quite hard to deal with if you have no experience with React and GraphQL.
Pretty limited... The only static site generator they support is Jekyll. To use any others, you need to commit the generated HTML files to source control, which is messy. Netlify is a much better hosting service as you can customize the build process, so any SSG can be used.
Indeed, the jump to Kirby 3 was a steep one, having said that, it is good. I use it for a site that has a blog, large guides section (800 pages) and a few others bits. Blazing fast, easy to work with (if you know PHP) and all the tools you need to build whatever you want are baked in, just not shoved in your face like say, Grav.
For what it offers I don't mind paying the price, for one site, not more.
Hugo
Gatsby
WP + Hugo
WP + Gatsby
Grav + Hugo
Datenstrom Yellow. Have a new project I am working on. Markdown + php mostly. Quite nifty. Planning a mini wiki site for a storytelling podcast for kids, with > 400 pages.
I'm curious what you mean by Grav + Hugo.