It is so hard not to feel REALLY SMUG reading stuff like this, as someone who has run my own website as the working primary source for my college instruction for the past 15 years or so using https://zim-wiki.org. (before Markdown was much of a thing!)
It's borderline bizarre to have watched this method of doing things kind of die out, and then also come back in the form of "static site generators" -- which, frankly, are still way clunkier than this.
Write in Zim, export to html, rsync to site. Easy.
My website started as html in 1995, vanilla html, not even css or Javascript. It has evolved to accommodate stats, and at some point (whenever it was that it was first released) I created an ASP template to manage headers, footers, contacts.
Used to update things whenever a new ASP version was released, but haven't bothered for years.
Process is simple - copy ASP template, rename, fill in the content, FTP to hosting Co and done.
I'm not much of a programmer or designer at all, but probably my most popular thing is the "EightFiveZero" theme I made for Zim, which the author of Zim linked to from the wiki and makes me almost feel like a real programmer or something.
It's borderline bizarre to have watched this method of doing things kind of die out, and then also come back in the form of "static site generators" -- which, frankly, are still way clunkier than this.
Write in Zim, export to html, rsync to site. Easy.