I'm all in favour of small websites, but publishing plain text files to the web seems a little bit too crude for me. If you take text file, wrap it with just a

I'm all in favour of small websites, but publishing plain text files to the web seems a little bit too crude for me. If you take text file, wrap it with just a <pre></pre> tags, and publish it as .html you can then use any inline html tags such as bold, italics, links, etc. And even block level stuff like headings and lists. But really, just mark up your text as plain, semantic HTML. It add very little to the file size.