My partner (who is very non-technical) went through registering a domain, making a Github account, installing VS Code, slapping some HTML together by hand, and

My partner (who is very non-technical) went through registering a domain, making a Github account, installing VS Code, slapping some HTML together by hand, and putting most of these things together before she even mentioned to me that she wants a website. Of course it took us a bit more work to polish it, but 90% of the work was hers (I helped with things like setting up Hugo, Netlify, writing some template code, fixing the CSS on mobile, etc). The biggest pain point of making a static website is just wrangling the generator. We wanted an image gallery with a couple selected works showcased on the front page, and the combination of various Hugo features to achieve that exact effect turned out to be non-obvious. There was probably a way to make it simpler, but we haven't found the time to find it. I think most non-technical people can easily get the first 90% of the work done by themselves with the currently available tools, it's just the other 90% where you find yourself struggling ;) (https://alida.gallery/ https://alida.gallery/)