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I had this exact same surprise last year! For whatever reason, there really isn't any sort of standard way of creating a vanilla site in 2025!
I also decided to develop my personal website in plain HTML. I looked into a bunch of static site generators and found that direction to be too complicated and slow for me. I still wanted the ability to have a common headers and footers and unique sections without repeating myself in every file. So I created a very small PHP application (just 5 files) and each page or blog post is a single PHP file in a directory. Th…
I wrote about it when I moved from WordPress to Jekyll. https://brajeshwar.com/2021/brajeshwar.com-2021/
it’s simple and maintainable.
I use PHP+Twig on my simple websites just so I don't have to copy-paste the header/footer/nav. It's still incredibly simple, very close to HTML+CSS and no build times. You can FTP upload your files if you want it works.
I've been maintaining my personal website as plain HTML for five years now. I must say, I quite like this method. There's no substitute for practice when it comes to maintaining your skills at editing HTML and CSS. Yes, you must copy and paste content and not having layout page is annoying at times. But the overhead of just doing it yourself is surprisingly small in terms of the time commitment. Typically, I'll draft…
> Yes, you must copy and paste content Manual work is almost never a good solution. Try this: for PAGE in *.page do cat header.html "$PAGE" footer.html > “$PAGE.html” done
Why on earth would you use something like sveltekit in the first place for such a simple website? I know people will say for the learning experience but learning what? How to basically "hello, world" in sveltekit?
sveltekit is basically html + css in a .svelte file if you don't use javascript.
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GitHub was just down the other day. Why would you want your personal website/portfolio to be tied to GitHub? Crazy "modern web dev" stacks are likely overkill, but that's not an argument against self-hosting.
Personal websites can be down a few days a month without a problem.
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> Yes, you must copy and paste content Many people who maintain their own sites in vanilla web technologies tend to create reusable functions to handle this for them. It can generate headers and the like dynamically so you don't have to change it on every single page. Though that does kill the "no javascript required" aspect a lot of people like Of course you could simply add a build step to your pure HTML site inste…
Isn't using React with a static site generator framework basically the same thing but better?
Something I built to have my own site in static HTML and CSS.