Website Builders — paid against free

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Prices and free tiers as checked, dated on each review.

Paid tools for this job are being added. The free alternatives below are ready to use.

Free to use. You run it on your own server.

They do this job.

Turns a folder of Markdown files into a complete website in seconds.

A web framework for content-heavy sites that produces plain HTML pages and sends almost no JavaScript.

A desktop program that builds a whole website on one computer and uploads the finished files.

A second choice: they cover part of this job or are a building block for it.

A self-hosted website and blog platform, written in Java, with a marketplace of themes and plugins.

A free toolkit for building drag-and-drop page editors and email editors inside another program.

Turns a folder of templates into a plain website with nothing running behind it.

One downloaded program that turns a folder of writing into a website.

A small custom element that replaces a YouTube iframe with a thumbnail until it is clicked.

Open-source typefaces packaged for npm, so a site serves its own fonts and fetches nothing from anybody else.

The shadcn look as plain styling, with no React needed.

A static site builder with no local dependency folder.

Automatic link-preview images for every page of an Astro site.

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