[jnbiche]

> It works even better if your webserver has server side includes (SSI) turned on.

If you're trolling, well done. If not, then you're not understanding the concept of the "static" in "static site generators". SSI are inherently dynamic. They run each time the page is viewed (yes, you can use a cache, but the page is still loaded dynamically by the cache server).

> Then you can make header/footer/sidebar/etc templates and just insert them with a line in the page templates.

This is precisely what any static site generator will do, since they all feature template engines.