@JessMahler Seconding HTML For People.

stefanbohacek.com/blog/resourc (which also links to HTML For People) is another good set of links, and it seems to be kept really up to date. (I found it through Nora Reed's website manifesto - nora.zone/manifesto.html - which also pointed me to Kompozer for an off-line HTML editor, if that's something that would be useful.)

But. I can say, I've had trouble using these resources to set things up such that I don't have to hand-edit each page - which has honestly been a major barrier to doing anything more with my Neocities site. A static site generator definitely saves a lot of time and energy on that front for blogs specifically, so it would be worth looking into what options you have there.

(I used to use one with GitHub pages that... involved Jekyll in some capacity? I haven't been able to find it again though. It had some frustrating issues of its own owing to using a weird variety of Markdown and not having particularly good documentation, but it was helpful.

All I had to do was run some stuff through git in the command line, and it turned my text files into fully formatted HTML pages... provided that I got all the Markdown in the text files right. I could preview the output as well before uploading, and so correct any issues.)

@JessMahler hey – I've been in your shoes.

I can't recall a 101 resource for your rn, but I'd definitely recommend Jekyll, a SSG project who got popular due to built-in support by GitHub, and Hugo, [probably] the most popular SSG project these days.

Building a static website with these tools is often very easy, and it pays well the investment on learning how to use them.