Static site theme options

Building a static site is a common need—marketing is persuasive, and a website remains one of the cheapest yet most effective channels. You might create a site to market your business, build your personal brand, promote an open-source project, launch a self-funded product, or simply share knowledge. Even when the goal isn’t explicitly marketing, in some way it often ends up serving that purpose.

Since you don’t really need a database, a static site is usually the most convenient and cost-effective solution.

Here are some curated static site theme options. As a developer who values data ownership, I’ve focused on technical solutions that give you full control.

Jekyll (Ruby)

• GitHub - cotes2020/jekyll-theme-chirpy: A minimal, responsive, and feature-rich Jekyll theme for technical writing.
• GitHub - just-the-docs/just-the-docs: A modern, high customizable, responsive Jekyll theme for documentation with built-in search.
• GitHub - jekyll/minima: Minima is a one-size-fits-all Jekyll theme for writers.
• GitHub - mmistakes/minimal-mistakes: :triangular_ruler: Jekyll theme for building a personal site, blog, project documentation, or portfolio.
• GitHub - daattali/beautiful-jekyll: ✨ Build a beautiful and simple website in literally minutes. Demo at https://beautifuljekyll.com

Hugo (Go)

• GitHub - adityatelange/hugo-PaperMod: A fast, clean, responsive Hugo theme.
• GitHub - HugoBlox/hugo-blox-builder: 🚨 GROW YOUR AUDIENCE WITH HUGOBLOX! 🚀 HugoBlox is an easy, fast no-code website builder for researchers, entrepreneurs, data scientists, and developers. Build stunning sites in minutes. 适合研究人员、企业家、数据科学家和开发者的简单快速无代码网站构建器。用拖放功能、可定制模板和内置SEO工具快速创建精美网站！
• GitHub - hotosm/hugo-book
• GitHub - google/docsy: A set of Hugo doc templates for launching open source content.
• GitHub - theNewDynamic/gohugo-theme-ananke: Ananke: A theme for Hugo Sites

MkDocs (Python)

• readthedocs
• mkdocs
• GitHub - squidfunk/mkdocs-material: Documentation that simply works

mdBook (Rust)