Awesome Small Web Publishing

A curated list of awesome small web publishing tools and frameworks.

• Involves Manual Labour
• Static Site Generation
• Specialized Generators
• Dynamic Site Generation
• Frameworks
• Articles and Inspiration
• More Resources

Involves Manual Labour

• Decker – builds on the legacy of HyperCard and the visual aesthetic of classic MacOS #hypercard #gui
• HOTGLUE – a visual tool for making web-pages #php #gui
• John Doe’s page #html

Static Site Generation

• bashblog – a single Bash script to create blogs #shell
• BeniBela site – static webpage generation with Xidel #xidel #make
• Ed – a Jekyll theme designed for textual editors based on minimal computing principles #jekyll #markdown
• Fish SSG – a small site generator for Obsidian written in fish shell #shell #pandoc #obsidian
• gemkill – an ultralight ultrasimple static site builder #gemtext #ruby
• ikiwiki – a particularly flexible static site generator with some dynamic features #linux #gui
• Lichen – the simplest possible CMS #cgi #gemtext
• Lichen-markdown – a simple and friendly CMS for making static websites #markdown
• lol – a static website generator in chicken scheme #chicken-scheme #markdown
• m4-blog – boilerplate for an m4 blog #m4 #pandoc
• MkDocs – Project documentation with Markdown #shell #markdown
• mkws – simple static site generator #shell #upphtml
• mynah – a little wiki bird #shell #pandoc #markdown
• makesite – static siteblog generator for python #python #markdown
• nini – nini is the new ni #go #htm
• Oscean – a wiki engine #uxntal #assembly
• Oddµ – a static wiki generator #markdown #wiki
• Pancake – An awful static website generator with an awful logo and an awful acronym #pandoc #racket
• pancake.sh – pandoc to markdown based note-archive #shell #pandoc #markdown
• Phraxos – A POSIX compliant static website generator #html
• Portable thoughts – single HTML document from a collection of Markdow #php #markdown
• Publii – static site CMS application with an interface #gui #html
• Sergey – the little static site generator #nodejs #markdown #html
• siteHX – barebones static site generator in haxe #haxe #markdown #html
• shite – the little hot-reloadin' static site maker from shell #shell #org-mode
• soupault - a static site management tool #html #html #html
• Untitled Static Site Generator – a multi-site static site generator #shell #pandoc
• vienna – Platonic Ideal of a simple and extensible static site generator #shell #htm
• web-bud – small static website maker built with Node #nodejs #markdown
• wg – A static website generator written in Fennel #fennel
• Zine – a simple and opinionated tool to build your own magazine #shell #markdown #toml

Specialized Generators

• Hyper 8 Video System – A static site generator for video content #video #rust
• Faircamp - A static site generator for audio producers #audio #rust

Dynamic Site Generation

• archive.txt #php #markdown
• Blot – turn a folder into a website #folder #docker
• Chyrp Lite #php #markdown
• MiniMagAsm #cgi #web-assembly
• Void – a website creation tool #php #markdown
• werc – a sane web anti-framework #cgi

Frameworks

• Kitten – A 💕 Small Web development kit. #webapps #js #htmx

Articles and Inspiration

• All you may need is HTML – fabiensanglard.net #html
• HTML Energy #html
• my website is one binary – j3s.sh #go #dynamic

More Resources

• Awesome Gemini #gemini
• Awesome Static Web Site Generators #ssgs
• Gemini Protocol – building a lightweight online space #gemini
• smolweb – promoting a simple unbloated web #smol #html

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