It really depends on what you need :-)

On the merits of using a good web generator: Let's say you want to generate a list of blog entries on your index page (like http://hugoroy.eu/index.en.html#blog) it's more convenient to generate such a list from a database rather than write the complete HTML each time, especially if you also want to distribute that list in other forms (such as http://hugoroy.eu/feed.rss) right now I do this by hand, but this can be quite annoying when you add more features, etc.

And I like markdown :-)