Static Site Generators for Beginners

I've been writing technical tutorials on my website since I started it last November, but this thread asking about static site generators for beginners on 32-bit Café made me realize I've never made a proper tutorial regarding SSGs from the ground-up basics. This post initially began as a reply to that thread, but I realized I had enough to say to fill an entire blog post. I hope this is helpful to anybody who has been interested in static-site generators but has found trying them out to be difficult, obtuse, and with a lot of friction. I'm someone that grew up using SSGs, going from editing the HTML on my Tumblr straight to setting up a blog with Jekyll when I was a teenager around 15 years ago now. While I would say I'm knowledgeable, being able to communicate and articulate that knowledge (particularly to beginners) is another skill entirely, and one I want to cultivate more. Hopefully I do a good job with that here! Prerequisites Let me start off by saying that, if you're brand…

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