HTML is all you need to make a website

Re:HTML is all you need to make a website by dragontamer on Thursday November 17, 2022 @05:11PM (#33646600)

Lets say you want something as simple as a table-of-contents. If you're doing HTML, you gotta render this yourself. In Wordpress or webpage generators like Jekyll or Hugo, table-of-contents generated from H1 / H2 headers is basically just one line.

Lets say you want to sort all your posts by date and paginate the results (say, 20 results per page or something), as per typical blogging patterns. That's a lot of HTML cruft you gotta make for this to happen. Meanwhile, Wordpress / Jekyll / Hugo (etc. etc.) do this all automatically for you.

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Re:HTML is all you need to make a website by drpixie on Thursday November 17, 2022 @07:58PM (#33648358)

I don't think it matters what generates the page. Wordpress/etc could generate plain html pages and the author's points would apply equally.

Personally, I prefer html with a little embedded css. It works, it's quick, it's all in one place, and it lets me produce suitably elegant pages.

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