I know this might be shocking but you can make a website without a framework. In fact, it probably would have worked out better for this site as it has such a s

I know this might be shocking but you can make a website without a framework. In fact, it probably would have worked out better for this site as it has such a simple design. HTML plus a handful of custom CSS rules would have sufficed and it wouldn't lock you into any "limitations". This is not a hard problem, not even close.