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		Fizzadar on May 21, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: It's OK not to use tools Couldn't agree more, perhaps a tiny bit of PHP to handle headers/footers but certainly nothing more. It seems these days you need a whole Django/Wordpress/etc app for even the simplest, static content.

eddieroger on May 21, 2014 [–]

That was exactly what I thought as well. A simple Sinatra router that looks for a filename that matches whatever the user asks for, and I'm off to the races. Quick and dirty header and footer in a layout file and I'm good - my 8 page site is now 9, but it's much more edit-friendly than 8 versions of a nav bar.

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