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A comment on Ask HN: What's a good static site generator to use for a blog in 2018?.

Re:Ask HN: What's a good static site generator to use for a ... by zapperdapper on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @01:12AM (#16481062)
Hugo is good, but you will need some technical expertise to customize it, unless you use a stock theme/template.

GitHub pages is also a great way to get started quickly - Markdown is easy to learn and there are several cheat sheets out there.

What I did in the end is created my own very simple site generator (calling it that is probably being over generous) - it lacks many features of a full-blown generator like Hugo, but it suits me down to the ground. I then host (for free) on GitHub and publish also to neocities.org (for free). See my HN profile for link to website - from there you can pick up the source code if you're interested.

Good luck with your blogging!

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Re:Ask HN: What's a good static site generator to use for a ... by artemis73 on Sunday March 04, 2018 @11:13PM (#16518672)
Hugo seems okay to me. Not that complicated so far. Yeah, it's a bit opinionated which kinda irks me sometimes coming from something like Jinja templating.

Do you have your SSG up somewhere on GitHub? I'd like to give it a look. Seems to be a cool idea. Thank you for telling me about neocities. Wasn't aware of that!

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Re:Ask HN: What's a good static site generator to use for a ... by zapperdapper on Monday March 05, 2018 @04:52AM (#16519939)
Check my HN profile. From there you can find my GitHub (see the repo Website-Test that has everything), feel free to use my code if you so wish!

Oh I really like neocities. You can sign up for pro membership and have custom domains and so on but I've not needed that so far - I may do at some point though.

All the best!

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