I think there are SSG front-ends that are quite good. I find that writing in HTML is fiddly for regular blogging but I do agree it's a lower barrier to entry t

I think there are SSG front-ends that are quite good. I find that writing in HTML is fiddly for regular blogging but I do agree it's a lower barrier to entry than it seems for simply writing a single page. When I show people my text-file SSG system, they love writing in markdown, they love that the site is 'portable', but they don't tend to want to get involved with the templating etc.