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title: Building static websites with Drupal
date: 2025-03-15
permalink: daily/2025/03/15/tome
tags:
  - software-development
  - static-websites
  - static-site-generators
  - drupal
cta: ~
snippet: |
  Did you know you can build your website locally with Drupal and export it to a static website?
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Over the last few days, I've written a few emails about static websites and static site generators before I [speak about Sculpin][4] at PHP Thames Valley.

They are [easy to build][2] and deploy and [cheap to host][3].

As a PHP Developer, I use Sculpin as it uses Symfony components, is extendable by writing my own PHP code and uses Twig for templating.

As a Drupal Developer, I like the power of Drupal's out of the box functionality and additional modules like Pathauto and Redirect, but I'd like to deploy it as a static website for it to be faster and more secure.

Enter Tome, [a Drupal module to create static websites][0].

You build the website the same as you would locally and export the content and files to a static website - the same you would generate with a static site generator like Sculpin or writing the files by hand.

Sam Mortenson (the creator of Tome) and I discussed it on [episode 19 of the Beyond Blocks podcast][1].

So, if you like Drupal and the benefits of static sites, Tome may be a good solution for you.

[0]: https://www.drupal.org/project/tome
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[3]: {{site.url}}/daily/2025/03/13/deploy
[4]: {{site.url}}/presentations/sculpin