title: Database-driven website with (almost) no programming
body: <p>Is there any reasonably attractive approach to building a basic database-driven website with only very light/simple programming (i.e., without using PHP, Python, Ruby, .NET, etc.)? I was imagining some trivial declarative language for database lookup that gets processed server-side. Something that anyone with HTML and SQL knowledge can figure out in a day or two.</p>
  
  <p>I heard of ColdFusion but it seems to be on a downward spiral. </p>
  
  <p>I read about <a href="https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/18239/which-cms-can-i-use-to-build-a-website-without-programming-knowledge">non-programmer friendly CMS</a>, but I need to be able to write my own SQL queries, and I doubt CMS allows that. (In addition, I only have a couple of web pages of content, so CMS is probably an overkill.)</p>
  
  <p>Does it mean as long as the website needs to talk to a database, a developer must be involved in making it?</p>