In the process of building a new personal website, I hunted around for static website engines. My previous website used an engine called habari, but development of the Habari Project is discontinued and I was interested in writing posts in markdown instead of plain HTML.
So let’s get a few questions answered immediately:
- Why a static engine?
- What is markdown?
A static website engine converts an intermediate syntax into HTML. It does this as a “static” page, which means that everything the site needs to function is prebuilt. This has three main advantages:
