Exactly the same thing for me! I was thinking: "man, I should write something about this" for a long time and never committed to it because I had the lame excus

Exactly the same thing for me! I was thinking: "man, I should write something about this" for a long time and never committed to it because I had the lame excuse that I did not have a personal site. So last week I finally caved, I learned nanoc, a static site generator in Ruby, and got to work. I didn't know Ruby either but to be honest it wasn't such a big deal, I learned what I had to pretty quickly and you can find some great examples online. I especially liked the little bits, like the fact that it's so easy to let nanoc generate a sitemap for me, which I could submit to Google and Bing to cozy up to the search engines. I'm currently still using more or less the default template because I find it to be pretty readable, but I'll change that soon, content is more important first. I didn't feel like paying for hosting, so I picked github as my host, which is working wonderfully. To use it with a custom domain you own, all you have to do is add a CNAME file to your repository. This is the site: http://www.aktau.be/ http://www.aktau.be/ (currently only 1 real article + the about/contact page up but more drafts are in the pipeline) Mine's open-source as well (of course): https://github.com/Aktau/aktau.github.com https://github.com/Aktau/aktau.github.com I got a cheap domain name for my own country from versio.nl, but they didn't seem to offer free DNS, so I'm using a free account at http://www.luadns.com/ http://www.luadns.com/. Which is, quite frankly, the most fun I've ever had configuring DNS. Write it in Lua, git push and you're done. So, the only thing I'm paying for is my domain name, which costs me about $2 per year. Awesome.