demo: jufaintermedia.com/keogramistinfo
Q: Why a single page, single file HTML site with minimal JS, is this 1993?
A: HTML was designed for this sort of thing. Simply, Zen, get stuff done.
Q: What skills do I need to use this?
A: required: some basic HTML familiarity, desirable: Some CSS familiarity, a web server on which to deploy.
Q: Why not use a static site generator?
A: The learing curve for those that understand XMLish stuff and don't want to get all command line-y
Q: Why note use Github pages?
A: Yes you could as well as an alternative if you are comfy with github: here's the instructions
Q: Why not use a WordPress site or PowerPoint HTML export or something
A: Go for it, I bet that would work great for lots of people who are familiar with that. Unlike PowerPoint HTML, this is mobile friendly
Q: Why not make an auto LaTeX to HTML conversion for my paper?
A: If you are asking this, you should def try it.
Q: Why not just upload a PDF or JPG of my poster?
A: embed of media like gifs, youtube etc, also does not reflow nicely between screen sizes
Q: Does this template include header META tags or JS scripts for searchability, indexibility, favicons, sharing etc?
A: No, you will have to add those sorts of metatags, analytics, social media links yourself.Try this website to generate all your META data
Q: What was the "inspiration"?
A: An ePoster WYSIWYG tool for a recent conference kept deleting content, timing out, made me sad, also had no mobile layouts for posters.
Q: Should I treat myself to a nice lunch?
A: Yes you should, you've been working hard and deserve a nice lunch.
Q: Warranty, support, liability etc.?
A: None. Use at your own risk
Q: Why is this even on github?
A: The conference poster presentation WYSIWYG software provided for a conference was not mobile friendly, not stable, and looked like 1999.