It can be difficult to create a website without sinking into the technological ooze. Even rather spartan sites can involve large amounts of complex CSS and Javascript. Content Management Systems (like Drupal, Wordpress, or Joomla) simplify creation of web pages. These CMSes also provide the ability to generate pages customized to particular users. But, in turn, they need more expensive hosting along with ongoing upgrades. Sites that don't need custom page generation of a CMS might consider Hugo as an alternative. Hugo is a static website generator. A Hugo user creates pages in a text editor using Markdown, a lightweight markup language. They also specify a theme, either creating their own or using one of the hundreds of themes available. When Hugo runs, it creates a set of HTML, CSS, and Javascript files. These files can be used with any hosting provider and do not need any special software on the web server to work. Hugo is available for Windows, macOS, and Linux.