Any kind of tool or framework that takes some source content — usually something in a Markup — and generates a Web site.
Jots
One of my deep sustained interests. You take some content, usually in the form of text files, work a little magic, and poof you got a Web site.
“Static” is a little misleading these days, as a lot of generators give you a Jamstack application. These get dynamic behavior through JavaScript, and often additional functionality by interacting with APIs and serverless endpoints.
Static site generation is one of my special interests, so there’s a disproportionate amount of material here about it.