[stephenhuey]

A lot of blogs (most blogs?) are database-driven websites whose content is stored in a database. A server serving static webpages will enjoy better performance and static webpages are simpler to manage in many ways. However, some of the benefits a CMS gives you like auto-generating headers and navigational aids, etc, are missing if you just write some straight HTML yourself. So a static content generator can read your blueprint for the website layout and generate the webpages for you, and they don't have to be pieced together on every request they way they are with a CMS like Wordpress. Anytime you have new content to add, you can just add it to your files that you feed into the static content generator and it builds all the webpages of your entire website for you once again. I'll reiterate that the server doesn't have to waste any time processing the files to send them down to your browser--essentially, they're already complete and ready to serve down to you.

Bootstrap is basically a CSS framework. Your generated static files have normal HTML in them, and they could be using Bootstrap for the styles just like any other webpage.

[derengel]

Thank you.