[superkuh]

Almost all webservers have support for server side includes. SSI are very limited and basically all you do is include one html file in another html file like <!--# include file="/footer.html" -->. It is the perfect combination of templating power and static html. It allows you to avoid all of the complexities of "static site generators" and "deploying" and all that cargo cult jazz.

[masswerk]

And, if you need more, there's still PHP, as kind of server side includes on steroids.