Most sites you visit on the web are probably generated dynamically – that is, rather than having all of their content encoded into the HTML stored on the server, they retrieve content from a database and construct pages to serve to you on the fly. Many also provide user interactivity through logins, forms and so on. Think of Facebook for an example of both of these things. To build this type of functionality yourself, you might look to a CMS such as WordPress.
For some use cases, however, this is overkill. Simple pages, such as a personal profile, information about a business, or even a blog really don’t need this sort of overhead or complexity. You could of course just build static HTML yourself in a text editor, and indeed,…