I’m looking for a tool to generate a simple personal website (like an online business card) to self host. Preferably a static site generator.
I’m now using Hugo, but it does too much for me and changes too often. (I can’t update my current page, because the template is no longer arond)
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I used https://html5up.net/ found a nice one and customized it for myself
I like to use bootstrap studio for website design.
Another tool, not sure it will fit your needs exactly, called reactive resume. Might be able to use it as a business card.
For a simple links-only page I’m using Linkstack, and there’s also littlelink
Create a custom hugo template that you can maintain yourself however and whenever.
I wrote my own set of tools in python that convert a simple gemtext formatted .gmi file into a static HTML file thats served by apache.
I’m a big fan of the Gemini Protocol project and found that handwriting pages in gemtext was ideal for focusing on text content and not worrying about formatting. Converting it to HTML+CSS with some scripts is pretty easy.
If anyone’s interested I can give a link, currently just hosting source locally on my website, really should get a public github running.
Have fun picking through the many options, haha. I just figured out Ghost (open source blogging platform) but it can easily be edited with static pages. It is basic but I am okay with the functionalities and ease of use
If you know some Python, I’d look at Flask. It might be overkill for a static site but it’ll leave the door open for future expansion. If your goal is minimal effort, this is probably not the way to go.
I might get shit for this, but I used ChatGPT to generate the code for a basic, single page, html/css, static website.
Ryan you might as well recommend a Macbook as a Linux alternative
Screech all you want, Copilot. It’ll take 10 minutes to get an MVP and you can just tweak from there.