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Static Content Generators

XeoncrossXeoncross Member
edited April 2013 in General

With so many resource-conscious people around - I'm curious which static content generators some of our members may be using and what features they liked most about them.

I'm planning on building one myself so I was wondering what matters most to people.

Comments

  • netomxnetomx Moderator, Veteran

    I was thinking about the same thing... To make simple websites ha!

  • flyfly Member

    @Xeoncross said: I'm planning on building one myself so I was wondering what matters most to people.

    should probably consider helping some of the existing projects clean up, as there are a lot of dead ones with potential

  • netomxnetomx Moderator, Veteran

    Seems nice http://www.phrozn.info/ [PHP]

  • If you are looking for static gallery generator there is great lazygal
    http://sousmonlit.dyndns.org/~niol/playa/oss/projects/lazygal/ [Python]
    source: https://bitbucket.org/niol/lazygal/src

  • DerekDerek Member

    Whats the purpose of a static generator?

  • I'm using the Octopress framework for Jekyll. If you built a nice framework around your static content generator, I'm sure people would find it useful.

  • texteditortexteditor Member
    edited April 2013

    @Derek said: Whats the purpose of a static generator?

    uses a trivial amount of resources and is very efficient for content that isn't updated frequently

    e.g. - You have a blog running on Wordpress that you update maybe once every 3 days. Assuming you don't have a cache in place, Wordpress has to query your database for every visitor; if you do have a cache it is eating up RAM still, waiting on every request.

    To save resources, you could opt for a static generator; you would write you blog posts out, run a script once to convert your blog post(s) and markup into static html pages of your site, and then you are only having to serve up static content until the next time you update you blog and re-run the script.

  • @texteditor from links given above,mostly are for generating static site by editing/creating content file,either by vim,etc.....not by creating static site from a published site,like wordpress or joomla...

  • @XeonCross I wrote one myself because most of the ones out there I looked at were all focussed at creating a blog, while I wanted a static front page with categories, like https://raymii.org is now. I named it ingsoc, https://raymii.org/s/software/ingsoc.html. Last week I added an Everything page, https://raymii.org/s/everything.html. It's one file which takes a folder of markdown files (with some YAML content information) and puts in into what you see at raymii.org.

    I think it's best to write your own since you probably have your own wishes and such...

  • netomxnetomx Moderator, Veteran

    @raymii claps exactly what I was looking, will check @ night

  • ChanChan Member
    edited April 2013

    @raymii
    image
    I like your site's design but it seems to be "broken" on the iPad and also on OSX
    fp-blue is one px too wide on OSX

    nice bootstrap theme btw, I didn't even realize it's bootstrap in the beginning! did you make it yourself or did you get it somewhere?

  • @Shamli said: @texteditor from links given above,mostly are for generating static site by editing/creating content file,either by vim,etc.....not by creating static site from a published site,like wordpress or joomla...

    Thats what I meant, that they were replacements. Poorly worded

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