pure HTML/CSS webpage that lasts long

I read a few times during the last days that creating a web page with only HTML and CSS, has the advantage of not being forced to update your frameworks again and again. It is a must for all my side projects that the effort for maintenance is as low as possible (otherwise they get outdated and die).

I started with john-doe.neocities.org as a reference and changed a few things (mostly colors). I added my content and deployed the site by using github pages, which was really easy. See my git repo for all details sschoebinger.github.io

Steren wrote about something I’ve been meaning to for years. My blog is the same, HTML, CSS, and a wee bit of JavaScript only when absolutely necessary. https://t.co/Zr9JJ4nvK2

— Seth Vargo (@sethvargo) December 23, 2020

It was okay to set all this up (with basic HTML and CSS knowledge) and it has some advantages for sure:

• 100% control of design and structure
• fast (lighthouse 100% on first try)
• easy to deploy (e.g. github pages without CI/CD)
• you learn the basic again

But even with my few pages I already had the wish to separate my content into different files and if you start with multiple files you definitely need templating. In addition I always like to write content in markdown which is no mandatory feature but nice to have.

I'll definitely test some of the static site generators and see what is the cost of having templating and markdown support.