Stuck with a series of static site generators

There's a non-bi community website that I'm responsible for.

For most of its life, it was using WordPress. When its server was changed last year, I took the opportunity to change it to a 'static site generator' - it wasn't updated very often, doesn't want anyone's comments, and serving plain HTML files is much quicker and vastly more secure than something looking at a database to go 'Oooh, what's on this page?' each time.

It's obviously possible to generate the HTML in a plain text editor but it's not 1994 any more and it's very useful to be able to say 'here's the content specific to this page, the rest is as usual / like this / etc'. And that's what an SSG does for you: feed it some text in some simple format and it will gather everything together to make your webpage. Want to change the colour of the menu? Want to change the entire theme? It's likely to be changing a single line in a single file and, on running the SSG again, every page will pick that up. ( Read more... )