I went with the standard two-column layout for this site: content and sidebar. I wanted the columns to have “fluid width”, equal height, and different background colors, so I referenced this article and used the " Nicholas Gallagher method" to implement it.

I recommend checking out the Gallagher method example at …

99% of programming is choosing a templating language and the rest is explaining your decision in a blog post.

— Hacker News Onion (???) August 6, 2013

I chose Jinja2 via Pelican. This blog replaces an old one I wrote in PHP and never maintained.

I found this tutorial and this blog …