Hey @Neha and @tomrutgers! that’s actually not quite correct - you can deploy a static html-only site to Netlify, you don’t need a static site generator. You can just leave the build command blank in that case. (tom’s comment that you CAN use drag n drop is correct!)
The publish directory needs to be the directory that contains the index.html file. The base can be blank in this case.
For example, here are the settings for an html only site of ours that does not have a build step:
