Ask HN: Best static site generator for non-designer? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Best static site generator for non-designer?

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Post by chuckQ » Fri, Aug 30, 2024, 8:40 AM UTC

I think v0 is simple to use

Re: Ask HN: Best static site generator for non-designer?

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Post by navis05 » Fri, Aug 30, 2024, 8:49 AM UTC

hnarayanan wrote: post #9

Yes, I would suggest you don’t pick a generator but look for themes in Hugo, Jekyll, Pelican etc. that you really like. And from there you’ve fallen into a generator and you can customise the theme a little to your needs. Here is the source code to my own website (in Hugo) if it’s helpful: https://github.com/hnarayanan/harishnarayanan.org

Very practical, I do the same and am happy. Astro has some great themes too

Re: Ask HN: Best static site generator for non-designer?

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Post by rogue7 » Fri, Aug 30, 2024, 12:09 PM UTC

I'm using Quarto [0], pretty happy with my blog [1].

Before it was made with Zola [2], which is also nice.

[0] https://quarto.org/

[1] https://blog.horaceg.xyz/

[2] https://www.getzola.org/

Re: Ask HN: Best static site generator for non-designer?

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Post by japoneris » Fri, Aug 30, 2024, 12:28 PM UTC

Jekyll for generation: https://jekyllrb.com/ And after, I select a free template to fill (for instance https://html5up.net/)

Re: Ask HN: Best static site generator for non-designer?

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Post by I_am_tiberius » Fri, Aug 30, 2024, 1:26 PM UTC

https://docusaurus.io/ is great

Re: Ask HN: Best static site generator for non-designer?

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Post by schwartzworld » Fri, Aug 30, 2024, 2:51 PM UTC

There's some pretty great CSS stylesheets that don't require you to write selectors at all. https://www.cssbed.com/no-class/ This site seems to have a good list with examples. Then you can generate HTML and only have to write CSS for the parts that really need customization.

For the HTML generation you don't need much if you go this route. I have built sites by writing markdown, generating HTML with Pandoc and then voila done.

Re: Ask HN: Best static site generator for non-designer?

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Post by runjake » Fri, Aug 30, 2024, 3:59 PM UTC

I use Jekyll (https://jekyllrb.com).

I'd switch to Hugo, but every time I try, I give up. It's not that I can't, it's too much up-front investment and fiddling than I care to deal with (recommendations and tips appreciated).

Re: Ask HN: Best static site generator for non-designer?

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Post by cpach » Fri, Aug 30, 2024, 4:51 PM UTC

schwartzworld wrote: post #16

There's some pretty great CSS stylesheets that don't require you to write selectors at all. https://www.cssbed.com/no-class/ This site seems to have a good list with examples. Then you can generate HTML and only have to write CSS for the parts that really need customization. For the HTML generation you don't need much if you go this route. I have built sites by writing markdown, generating HTML with Pandoc and then v…

I can highly recommend water.css (which is featured in that list). It’s incredibly simple to get started with.

Re: Ask HN: Best static site generator for non-designer?

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Post by solardev » Fri, Aug 30, 2024, 5:52 PM UTC

Another vote for Astro and its themes here.

I work at a headless CMS company, and I see Astro frequently taking the place of Next and Svelte and Vue for simpler sites these days, especially for people who don't want to do a lot of coding.

You don't need to design anything or learn the intricacies of frontend, just pick a theme you like, maybe tweak the colors and fonts a bit if you must, but otherwise it's pretty much just providing your own content and the framework takes care of the rest of it.

Re: Ask HN: Best static site generator for non-designer?

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Post by mobilio » Fri, Aug 30, 2024, 6:44 PM UTC

Seems that you are looking for BootstrapStudio or Publiii?