A simple way to create HTML from Markdown

createmarkdown

Markdown is a simple language to write create web pages . Markdown is much easier than HTML with the barest of markup ( as opposed to HTML) and lets you focus on the content . 
The best way to create your own static website is to create a user.github.io page ( its pretty simple ) and then write your pages in markdown ( *.md files) and let some program generate HTML for you . 
Unfortunately , while people on the internet obsess over Markdown , I found it hard to find a simple and easy-to-use tool to generate my static website . The most often cited tool Jekyll and Hugo were overkill for my needs ( and Hugo didn't  work in my case for I was unable to generate any html files  ) 
Anyway, back to the topic , i found a nice tool called markdown2 a python based html generator  .Its easy to install with

   sudo pip install markdown2
   (or)
   sudo easy_install markdown2

you will need python (2.7 in my case) and python pip or python setup_tools
The syntax of Markdown is described in 
http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax/

once you have installed markdown2 a nice fancy cli tool is installed . You can then simply generate HTML files using 

markdown2 file.md > file.html
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