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Re: Static Site Generators

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Post by BenDoan » Thu, May 15, 2014, 3:30 AM UTC

I'm really pleased with FrozenFlask. It lets you develop a normal site with python and flask with all of the flexibility: routing, databases, modules, etc. that you'd expect while still outputing a static website. I made my current blog site with it.

https://pythonhosted.org/Frozen-Flask/ https://github.com/bendoan/bendoan.me

Re: Static Site Generators

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Post by sgdesign » Thu, May 15, 2014, 3:31 AM UTC

Random observations:

- Aren't Jekyll and Octopress basically the same thing?

- Really impressed at how fast Metalsmith is growing. Might have to give it a try soon.

- For now I give my vote to Middleman.

Re: Static Site Generators

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Post by platz » Thu, May 15, 2014, 3:46 AM UTC

sgdesign wrote: post #12

Random observations: - Aren't Jekyll and Octopress basically the same thing? - Really impressed at how fast Metalsmith is growing. Might have to give it a try soon. - For now I give my vote to Middleman.

Any good observations what differences there are between Metalsmith and Assemble?

Re: Static Site Generators

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Post by Uehreka » Thu, May 15, 2014, 4:01 AM UTC

sgdesign wrote: post #12

Random observations: - Aren't Jekyll and Octopress basically the same thing? - Really impressed at how fast Metalsmith is growing. Might have to give it a try soon. - For now I give my vote to Middleman.

Octopress is built on top of Jekyll and is geared towards making blogs to host on Github Pages (they'll run jekyll, but not any plugins, so you need to have a weird deployment setup if you want to use things like Haml and Sass). Jekyll itself is more of the lightweight, no-frills vanilla version.

Re: Static Site Generators

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Post by imakesnowflakes » Thu, May 15, 2014, 4:03 AM UTC

Here is something I made in php,

http://imakesnowflakes.com/vodka-introduction.html

I made it because I found the existing ones unnecessarily complicated, for doing something trivial as converting a bunch of markdown files into html.

Re: Static Site Generators

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Post by ronbeltran » Thu, May 15, 2014, 4:42 AM UTC

It would be more useful if we can filter the list by Stars, License, Language, Created, Updated.

Re: Static Site Generators

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Post by cwyers » Thu, May 15, 2014, 4:50 AM UTC

I did a doubletake when I was skimming the list and ran across a blogging engine written in Fortran.

Re: Static Site Generators

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Post by srpablo » Thu, May 15, 2014, 4:52 AM UTC

Missing Frog!

https://github.com/greghendershott/frog

Fun little list :D

Re: Static Site Generators

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Post by hpaavola » Thu, May 15, 2014, 4:59 AM UTC

Is ther any CMS/blog/... type of thing that would create flat files, but keep all the content also in DB?

That way search and comments (and especially moderation for comments) would be easier to handle, but still it would be easy on the server.

For my own site I created something like this, https://github.com/Harri/Spage , but instead of DB, I used another set of flat files (serialized arrays containing the page content + some meta data) for management purposes.

Re: Static Site Generators

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Post by slacka » Thu, May 15, 2014, 4:59 AM UTC

My 60 yr old mother runs 2 small nonprofits, and is responsible for the web content and design. She's a pro with Word Perfect, but gets confused by simple HTML tags, and no interest, time, or aptitude to learn HTML/CSS/JavaScript.

Last weekend, she asked for help with her website, and I was shocked to find out they still look like they're out of the late 90's. She does all of her editing with a 2006 copy of dreamweaver in WYSIWYG mode.

I'm a huge fan of Jekyll, but she is scared by the Liquid/markdown syntax. I was thinking of moving her to Visual Studio for Web or KompoZer. Anyone know a better HTML editor with WYSIWYG mode and modern, beautiful templates or can recommend one of these all 243 generators?