I took wrote my own static-site generator, using HTML::Template, called Templer. It allows plugins for handling breadcrumbs, etc, but largely gets out of the way.

It had never occurred to me to upload such an application to CPAN, but having seen yours I think that might be a plan.

It had never occurred to me to upload such an application to CPAN, but having seen yours I think that might be a plan.

Upload, you're in good company

• ttree / Template::Tutorial::Web ,
• tt2size / Template::TT2Site,
• MasonX::StaticBuilder,
• staticvolt / StaticVolt,
• Orze - Another static website generator
• - Another static website generator
• wallflower - Turn your Plack app into a static site
• Miril::Manual - Why and how to use Miril, the static content management sytem.
• Web::Scaffold - build minimalist fancy web sites
• Contenticious - build web sites from markdown
• hid / HiD - Static website publishing framework
• Zucchini / zucchini - script to generate and upload template based websites

• Zero learning curve
• already installed, ready to go, proven, stable
• No more resource hungry than a templating system
• While it does use resources each page serve, this is a low-traffic site on a private server that won't even notice the minor load
• Although it is static, the content and the nav bar do change from time to time. An off-line generator would mean having to re-generate the entire website each time any page was updated, adding steps of complexity in a a situation where pages may be edited by multiple authors who have limited web skills to being with. Or I have to develop an interface for that function too. Whereas with SSI, edit the file directly once, and that's it, done.
• same for the nav bar, which changes occasionally;