Introduction
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I wanted to create a blog, and I wanted to do it fast without having to learn too much. My only real experience with Webdev was some basic units that I had to take at University. I wanted to get something up and running as quick as possible, and as cheap as possible. To minimise costs, I chose to do a static site, which I could then freely host on GitHub Pages or similar services. The only real cost of this site would be purchasing a domain name.
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I played around with Hugo and a few other static generators initially, and once I found Pelican (thanks to this site: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/). I was ready for action! Pelican seems to do what I want very easily without having to do too much extra work, and it will allow me to change things down the track (such as layout and themes) without too much effort.
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Getting this blog up and running (after doing research into different static site generators) took me about 4hrs on a Sunday afternoon, from start to finish.
Pelican
Pelican is a static site generator written in Python, thus it leverages all the advantages of python. It is extremely simple to install.