[tresoldi]

I felt the same when looking for a generator that could be learned in one afternoon and which would allow me to easily change templates/themes whenever I felt like it, months later. The solution was to rely exclusively on pandoc for markdown to HTML conversion, generating some .md files when necessary (such as from a bibliography, or if so I wanted from a blog/ directory). All without any real templating and relying only upon my bare CSS knowledge -- a nice side effect was forcing me to adopt a minimalist approach.

The entire "generator" is a silly Python script: https://github.com/tresoldi/tresoldi.github.io/blob/master/b... (the site is at http://www.tiagotresoldi.com/ , in case anyone cares).