I used https://html5up.net/ found a nice one and customized it for myself

Create a custom hugo template that you can maintain yourself however and whenever.

I like to use bootstrap studio for website design.

https://bootstrapstudio.io/

Another tool, not sure it will fit your needs exactly, called reactive resume. Might be able to use it as a business card.

https://rxresu.me/

I was in a similar boat. Wanted a simple stetig site generator with little to no config. I found https://github.com/rochacbruno/marmite and am happy with it

Ghost Blog. Open source, flexible, loads of potential uses, works every time.

https://github.com/adityatelange/hugo-PaperMod/wiki/Features#profile-mode

If you know some Python, I’d look at Flask. It might be overkill for a static site but it’ll leave the door open for future expansion. If your goal is minimal effort, this is probably not the way to go.

I wrote my own set of tools in python that convert a simple gemtext formatted .gmi file into a static HTML file thats served by apache.

I’m a big fan of the Gemini Protocol project and found that handwriting pages in gemtext was ideal for focusing on text content and not worrying about formatting. Converting it to HTML+CSS with some scripts is pretty easy.

If anyone’s interested I can give a link, currently just hosting source locally on my website, really should get a public github running.

Have fun picking through the many options, haha. I just figured out Ghost (open source blogging platform) but it can easily be edited with static pages. It is basic but I am okay with the functionalities and ease of use

I found BashWrite which is just a very simple static site generator written completely in bash as a single file script.

The only dependency is having an up-to-date sed command which most systems should have. I use Alpine Linux which comes with a minimal sed command so I had to download the full command through my package manager.

It’s simple, basic and has support for the majority of markdown formatting. There’s some limitations due to it being written in Bash only but I am personally okay with that.

I found it on this list of static site generators if you’re curious to see more options.

Write markdown and convert to HTML with pandoc?

I might get shit for this, but I used ChatGPT to generate the code for a basic, single page, html/css, static website.

Screech all you want, Copilot. It’ll take 10 minutes to get an MVP and you can just tweak from there.