I've been using a static site generator,
Astro. While it had a learning curve, its approach embraces modularity. Which is useful for the early days of a site when youre still adding links to a navbar and dont have a clear idea of your layout yet. What this means is instead of having to update all your pages manually, you have the ability to store repeated elements as components, ergo, you can save time by only having to edit one file.
Theres a lot of other interesting things I've been messing with. It supports markdown too, and has its own system of "collections" which can be used for a blog. I'm personally using that system with my OC's.
The downside is that some of the directory structure can be cumbersome depending on how your plugins function.
I'm still waffling over splitting my treasures page and how to integrate talking about worlds with the characters, but for now its a giga WIP, so its not a big deal.
Having everything seperated can be a little overwhelming, but I honestly prefer it because of the level of control it gives me. Check it out! Before I switched to Astro I've also used Jekyll, but my god Im never looking back. Its just cumbersome sometimes when my brainpower is low.