State of the Web: Static Site Generators

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Publii

I think Publii[0] is the modern equivalent as it also runs on desktop and provides a blog-ish CMS with its own editor. I used it to make a small devlog[1] some time ago (on which I only wrote a single article, proving once and for all that the reason I do not blog more isn't because of the blog tech but because I'm too lazy to and I'd rather be writing endless posts in messageboards :-P). I do prefer the CityDesk style though[2], even if Publii is technically more powerful. [0] https://getpublii.com/ [1] http://runtimeterror.com/devlog/ [2] http://runtimeterror.com/pages/badsector/nyan/gimme/cdsite/.

#CMS #Blogging #Social & Communications 59 social mentions

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Kit55

#Website Builder #Static Site Generators #Multilingual Site Generator 18 social mentions

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Neocities

The complexity of of static site generator isn't always needed or useful. If you just want a simple site with a handful of posts a year then manually making .html files with an WYSIWYG editor or just copying old HTML templates from site likes "alistapart" is a legitimate, simple option. Installing nginx from your system repos is safe and easy too but if you don't want to self host then https://neocities.org/ is decent.

#Website Builder #CMS #Blogging 162 social mentions

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Hakyll

Love SSGs too! Came here to share praise for Hakyll[1], for people with an FP leaning. Predictably, it's not easy to get started, but once you're into it the power of building your own arbitrary content "compilers" (and template extensions etc etc) is pretty impressive. [1] https://jaspervdj.be/hakyll/.

#CMS #Blogging #Blogging Platform 6 social mentions

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MiddleMan

I worked with middleman[0] before and it was much easier to setup for these kind of sites. It might not be as fast as Hugo but who cares if you change a page every other month. [0] https://middlemanapp.com/.

#Blogging #CMS #Blogging Platform 11 social mentions