Building Static Websites
I was wanting to create a website (this site) but have been out of the web-dev game for a long time. Though I've never done any significant web work, I look back fondly at my early days of learning HTML / JavaScript and how simply anyone could get started. The pages were simple and the dependencies straight forward.
However, that quickly gave way to using Dreamweaver, Wordpress and Drupal paired with ever increasing amount of libraries, plugins and databases. Each of these added functionality and convenience but at the expense of complexity. I found myself constantly worrying about security vulnerabilities, updates and managing servers rather than working on projects and writing posts.
In the end, I scrapped the sites and forgot about the whole thing, which brings us to today. There has been a resurgence of static websites and tools to build them, enough so to spark my interest and start this site. I'll recap my experiences so far and intend to keep posting as part of the experiment.
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