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title: "Exploring Website Development for Personal Sites"
slug: exploring-website-development-for-personal-sites
canonical_url: https://nerdymomocat.github.io/posts/exploring-website-development-for-personal-sites/
collection: Stream
published_at: 2023-07-30T00:00:00.000Z
updated_at: 2024-09-24T00:00:00.000Z
tags: 
  - Websites
  - Tools
  - Self-Hosting
excerpt: "Tools for easy personal websites"
author: "Nerdy Momo Cat"
---

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- [Introducing Webtrotion](https://nerdymomocat.github.io/posts/introducing-webtrotion/)

I wanted to explore simple WYSIWYG website editors (markdown acceptable) for personal academic sites, focusing on those that can be hosted on GitHub Pages for free, or that you at least own your content. Here's what I discovered:

1.   [![](https://montaigne.io/favicon.png) Montaigne](https://montaigne.io/) is quick with Apple Notes and creates a presentable site.
2.  [![](https://nerdymomocat.github.io/_astro/cat_purple.D6LQSj_d_Z1EYdWV.svg)Introducing Webtrotion](https://nerdymomocat.github.io/posts/introducing-webtrotion/) by ME! can be used to make websites with a blog component. It is built off [Notion to Astro blog](https://github.com/otoyo/astro-notion-blog) by otoyo0122 is excellent for basic blogs.
3.   [![](https://getpublii.com/favicon.ico) Publii – Static CMS for Fast, Secure, GDPR & CCPA-Compliant Websites](https://getpublii.com/) is an open-source CMS that integrates well with Github Pages or Netlify.
4.   [![](https://dbfnrqvkgwkjkzqgnfrd.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/images/1a9f29e7-b37e-4a46-adcf-49d3b854ed8a/1680814436263_p_%20Mark%20in%20App%20Icon.png) Primo](https://primocms.org/) is another visual website builder that's open-source.
5.   [![](https://quarto.org/favicon.png) Quarto](https://quarto.org/) requires local writing, but has many templates.
6.   [![](https://quartz.jzhao.xyz/static/icon.png) Welcome to Quartz 4](https://quartz.jzhao.xyz/) integrates well with [![](https://obsidian.md/favicon.ico) obsdmd Obsidian - Sharpen your thinking](https://obsidian.md/).
7.  Git-based CMS options like [![](https://decapcms.org/icons/icon-512x512.png?v=e2fbb8496ae947d5e978aa4b513fca81) Decap CMS Decap CMS | Open-Source Content Management System](https://decapcms.org/) and [![](https://tina.io/favicon/favicon.ico) Tina The Markdown CMS](https://tina.io/) provide a WordPress-like experience.
8.   [![](https://nuxt.studio/favicon.svg) Nuxt Studio The Git-based CMS for Nuxt](https://nuxt.studio/) is a new git-based visual CMS.
9.  [sites.google.com](https://sites.google.com/) is a WYSIWYG option but you don't own the content.
10.   [![](https://astro.build/favicon.svg) Astro](https://astro.build/) with [![](https://getdarkmatter.dev/favicon-32x32.png) Darkmatter - CMS for Astro content collections](https://getdarkmatter.dev/) are for those familiar with Astro.
11.   [![](https://editable.website/favicon-512x512.png) Make your website editable](http://editable.website/) is easy to use but complex to install.
12.  Hugo ([Paper mod](https://github.com/adityatelange/hugo-PaperMod)) and Jekyll are for those who are tech-savvy.

Paid options: [![](https://cdn.blot.im/documentation/v-f1d9a044/favicon-180x180.png) Blot](https://blot.im/)(which I highly recommend, you still own your content!), [![](https://cdn.pagy.co/2m9srf46g9u9c2x87w1bm2qdu8po) Pagy Pagy – Simple website builder](https://pagy.co/), [![](https://s.w.org/images/wmark.png) WordPress.org Blog Tool, Publishing Platform, and CMS - WordPress.org](https://wordpress.org/), [![](https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/6515a6d5f30daec433d0abe2/6515a6d5f30daec433d0ac10_fw_webclip.png) Webflow: Create a custom website | Visual website builder](https://webflow.com/), and [![](https://www.wix.com/favicon.ico) wix.com Your website, your business, your future｜Wix.com](https://www.wix.com/)

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