I can recommend to use Hugo [0] as a static website generator. They have plenty of themes [1] to choose from. You can still adjust it with basic knowledge in HTML/CSS. Afterward you can chose where to host it. You can use Github Pages [2] for free or pay for a service like DigitalOcean [3]. I wrote a technical cheatsheet [4] on how to setup your own website with these ingredients.

- [0] https://gohugo.io/

- [1] http://themes.gohugo.io/

- [2] https://pages.github.com/

- [3] https://www.digitalocean.com/

- [4] http://www.robinwieruch.de/own-website-in-five-days/

It all depends e.g. what's your favorite (scripting) language? what's your favorite template (language)? what's your favorite configuration format / language? and so on. I've put together a stay static showcase - that shows the same website / sample site (w/ posts, pages, datafiles) in 10+ static website builders / generator - see https://github.com/staystatic/staystatic Cheers.

If you want to try something browser-based, not tied to any scripting languages - I'd like to introduce Pragma (https://pragma.build). Read the intro blog post [0] and request for an invite if that sounds interesting.

[0] https://www.laktek.com/2016/11/29/introducing-pragma/

Used Jekyll (https://jekyllrb.com/) for a while. But now Hugo (https://gohugo.io/).

I use Jekyll for most static sites where I present information (most of them are internal websites for specific projects inside companies) And I use middleman when I want a little bit more custom things to happen.

Jekyll and Middleman both on larger scale production sites.

Since my favorite scripting languages produced nothing of value in the last decade I started using hugo and don't care patching it. It just works.

Hugo : https://gohugo.io/

Octopress, because it handles code formatting particularly well.

MyOwnStaticBlogGenerator

pelican, it supports jupyter notebooks

Middleman