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If you're looking for a good static website generator (I was using webgen in the past, but it's not really maintained any more AFAICT and it's quite limited), have a look at https://github.com/jgm/yst
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My favourite website generator is Emacs. ;) Seriously, I never understood why I should learn a markup language which gets translated into HTML (another markup language) if I could learn/write the target markup language directly without depending on a intermediate layer.
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 :-)
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 :-)