Ways to create your own light weight website.

Collected by me

Wikis

  • Mkdocs - the SSG this wiki uses.
  • wikmd - extremely barebones SSG wiki with minimum customisation options.

From Resources List for the Personal Web - Community Wiki - 32-Bit Cafe

(Free) Blogging Platforms & Static Site Generators

  • Aurora, SSG created by @capjamesg
  • Bear Blog, a blogging platform
  • Bloggable, blogging platform on any Neocities site (including free accounts!) by @april
  • Chyrp Lite, a PHP blogging engine similar to Tumblr
  • Dreamwidth , an open-source LiveJournal alternative
  • Eleventy, SSG
  • Faircamp, Bandcamp platform alternative
  • Gatsby, SSG
  • HamsterCMS, content management system by @downgrade
  • Hugo, SSG
  • Jekyll, SSG
  • Likho’s microblog.py, microblog generator created by @likho
  • Mataroa, a blogging platform
  • Melonking’s Gallery Maker, an application that lets you easily create HTML photo galleries
  • Midnight.pub, a blogging platform created by m15o
  • Pagecord, an easy and minimalist blogging platform by @olly
  • Phantomake, SSG created by Osmose
  • Pika, a blogging platform similar to BearBlog
  • Publii, a beginner-friendly, open-source, all-in-one WordPress alternative
  • Simple page builder app, a WYSIWYG editor to export code and upload elsewhere
  • Smol.pub, a blogging platform created by m15o
  • Soupault, an SSG that doesn’t need templates or front matter
  • Statamic, an independent blogging engine similar to WordPress
  • Strawberry Starter, a simple markdown blog template
  • W, a flat-file Wiki engine based on PHP by @vincent-peugnet
  • Write.as, a minimalist blogging platform
  • Write Freely, an opensource simple blogging platform
  • Zola, a single-binary SSG
  • Zonelets, a blogging engine made for Neocities but can be used everywhere
  • Zoner, a drag-and-drop SSG based on Zonelets