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		martin on July 12, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Lightweight Programmer's CMS? If all you want to do is attach a header and footer to an otherwise static HTML page, why not just use SSI? http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/howto/ssi.html

amouat on July 12, 2009 [–]

Good suggestion, but I think I'll go with one of the other solutions for a few reasons:

- I'd rather keep things completely static if I can

- It ties my site to Apache a bit

- I may as well take advantage of some of the other features Jekyll etc provide

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