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Pelican http://getpelican.com/> ; is a Python-based static site generator with a very active community behind it. It has a good mix of features without being overly complicated. Check it out! (Disclaimer: I'm a Pelican project committer.)
For other devs: if you're familiar with Jinja, then you're 80% of the way there.
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Site generators of this type form a happy medium between the inefficiency of writing HTML from scratch (after all, most boils down to templates filled with content) and the inefficiency of regenerating static content upon every request (as WP and Drupal are prone to do). If there's no dynamic stuff on your site, why pull everything from a database? And if you save time by using templates, why roll your own HTML?
but most of the best static sites so far have a different view.. so, to make a different view, we cant use a template. but i would be interested in leaning these things. i'm on a windows. can suggestion how to install and get started with octopress(seems to be the best)?
Hakyll, since it has Haskell type safety goodness and is very customizable (it's basically a Haskell EDSL for static site generation): http://jaspervdj.be/hakyll/ The other nice thing about Hakyll is that it uses Pandoc, so it supports different input and output formats (such as HTML slide generation from Markdown).
I just started using Hakyll and it's really awesome. It's very configurable, and integrating with Pandoc makes it very versatile. Maybe this doesn't matter to most people, but having Pandoc means support for math (e.g. TeX) is standard. I have a fairly complicated setup at the moment, and yet it still has less than 100 lines of configuration. Also, being in Haskell, I've found it pretty fast so far despite being writ…
> I'm short, Hakyll is awesome.
Hakyll, since it has Haskell type safety goodness and is very customizable (it's basically a Haskell EDSL for static site generation): http://jaspervdj.be/hakyll/ The other nice thing about Hakyll is that it uses Pandoc, so it supports different input and output formats (such as HTML slide generation from Markdown).
I just started using Hakyll and it's really awesome. It's very configurable, and integrating with Pandoc makes it very versatile. Maybe this doesn't matter to most people, but having Pandoc means support for math (e.g. TeX) is standard. I have a fairly complicated setup at the moment, and yet it still has less than 100 lines of configuration. Also, being in Haskell, I've found it pretty fast so far despite being writ…
I like the optimism in that "maybe" at the beginning of the sentence.
Simple. Quick deployments. Python/django based.
One feature on my todo list is to find a way to add infinite scrolling (this is 2012, I don't think blogs should have “Next Page” anymore!). It seems it shouldn't be too hard but a quick search suggests nobody has tried this with Jekyll (or Octopress) yet.