When I made our wedding website, I wrote a short python cgi script to push markdown files through a parser and paste them into a template. Then I wrote a CSS fi

When I made our wedding website, I wrote a short python cgi script to push markdown files through a parser and paste them into a template. Then I wrote a CSS file to make it pretty, and popped that up with a static HTML home page on NearlyFreeSpeech behind CloudFlare. We're talking about 27 lines of python, 62 lines of HTML, and 135 lines of CSS. My point here isn't that people should do exactly what I did. Rather, my point is that most of a web developer's job is finding the right components and then writing a little bit of code to glue them together. Stop looking for some special system that holds your hand like a toddler through every step of every process, and just write some damned code to do the thing you need done. I personally don't believe in learning and deploying an entire framework to save less than 250 lines of code.