Create web site from Word files?

[Shohreh]

Hello,

I know it's not exactly about e-books, but it's about writing, I don't know where else to ask and some people here might know :-)

For a non-techie friend who just retired from university and would still like to publish academic articles, I need to find a simple way to create a web site.

A simple web server (Linux + Nginx) running on a thin client is all it's needed in terms of hardware. As for software, static web pages are plenty good, no need to bother with dynamic solutions like Wordpress et al.

As for publishing articles, he's used to writing them in Word (including graphs, that are impossible/too hard to draw in HTML), and them export them to PDF.

I'd be surprised if there was no solution that…
1. Turns Word files into HTML and PDF
2. Creates a new article as HTML with the PDF as attachment for those needing that instead (printing, visual problems)
3. Updates the site's homepage accordingly

Before I look further into this, would you know of a solution, preferably open-source?

Thank you.

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Edit: Looks like pandoc can handle the DOC(X) → HTML+PDF conversion. Then, the application should regenerate the home page with a new/edited link when the user adds/edits a file.