As beginner in web development I'm jealous of the simplicity of web development described at the beginning of the post.

I've been blogging for 17 years, and gone through a number of iterations (started with Wordpress, then my own PHP blog, then Posterous, then Jekyll, and now Scroll). The language I use now, Scroll (https://scroll.pub/), is very simple, you might want to check it out. You can start small with something like this:

    header.scroll
     # My Blog
    firstPost.scroll
     import header.scroll
     Hello *world*
     <b>Its fine to use html too</b>
    index.scroll
     import header.scroll
     snippets