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title: Static website are easy to build
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date: 2025-03-12
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permalink: daily/2025/03/12/easy
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tags:
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- software-development
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- static-websites
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- static-site-generators
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- sculpin
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cta: ~
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Static websites are the easiest way to build websites.
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Static websites are the easiest way to build websites.
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You create an index.html file, type some words, open the file in a browser and you'll see the words you entered.
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You built a website!
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Then you can create any more pages you need and style it with CSS.
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This how I built my first website, for a Tae Kwon-Do school I used to train at.
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This worked great, but at some point, becomes hard to scale.
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What if you want to add a new link to your navigation menu? You'd need to update each HTML page separately.
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At this point, I started to learn about PHP and MySQL, and then Drupal.
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Static site generators like Sculpin, Jekyll and Hugo also fix this problem.
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They allow you to write HTML files with a template language like Twig and use includes, loops and conditions to make your files easier to create and maintain with a language and tools you're familiar with.
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It still generates a static website with HTML files, but in a more maintainable way.
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As a PHP Developer, I like Sculpin but also like Tome to export a Drupal website to static HTML.
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