Static Web Site Design Tools
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I really like Grav. It's a great static site platform, but is technically CMS and not easy for the layman to set up.
Perhaps straight HTML in an HTML editor is best then.
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@Obsolesce said in Static Web Site Design Tools:
Perhaps straight HTML in an HTML editor is best then.
An option for sure, but do you know of one? I mean, they exist. But one that does a good job?
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@Obsolesce said in Static Web Site Design Tools:
I really like Grav. It's a great static site platform, but is technically CMS and not easy for the layman to set up.
It's a cool tool, but it isn't static. It's flat file, but it just uses the file system as a database (which filesystems are by their nature) rather than a DBMS. Grav would meet many of the needs, but it is dynamic and requires PHP which ideally we'd avoid.
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So after a week or two, I've played around with a few things. Publii seems really cool, but a little harder than it should be to get something nice done. But I'm still testing it. The basics are great.
@Obsolesce recommended privately that I test out Jekyll and he was right that it's great. I did the first full test with it and I think even though it isn't exactly what I was looking for that it is going to be the long term winner. I like the architecture of Publii more, but the reality of Jekyll might be what meets my needs best.
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@scottalanmiller said in Static Web Site Design Tools:
So after a week or two, I've played around with a few things. Publii seems really cool, but a little harder than it should be to get something nice done. But I'm still testing it. The basics are great.
@Obsolesce recommended privately that I test out Jekyll and he was right that it's great. I did the first full test with it and I think even though it isn't exactly what I was looking for that it is going to be the long term winner. I like the architecture of Publii more, but the reality of Jekyll might be what meets my needs best.
I thought you were looking for something easier for a web designer?
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@black3dynamite said in Static Web Site Design Tools:
@scottalanmiller said in Static Web Site Design Tools:
So after a week or two, I've played around with a few things. Publii seems really cool, but a little harder than it should be to get something nice done. But I'm still testing it. The basics are great.
@Obsolesce recommended privately that I test out Jekyll and he was right that it's great. I did the first full test with it and I think even though it isn't exactly what I was looking for that it is going to be the long term winner. I like the architecture of Publii more, but the reality of Jekyll might be what meets my needs best.
I thought you were looking for something easier for a web designer?
Honestly, it's SO easy. I prefer the architecture of Publii for that purpose. But Jekyll seems even easier.
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I quickly found a problem that would keep me from using Publii personally and that's no native LaTeX support. After showing it to a friend and how easy it was to setup and use, I wondered if I could convert one of my sites to it. However I have to have good math support and it doesn't. For any other user it seems to work great.
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Playing with Hugo today and I'm liking it a lot. Thanks for pressuring me to stick with it till I got it working
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Have you looked at Forestry.io ? It's a gui front end for most of the popular statics site generators:
Gatsby
Hugo
Gridsome
Jekyll
11ty
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@scottalanmiller said in Static Web Site Design Tools:
Playing with Hugo today and I'm liking it a lot. Thanks for pressuring me to stick with it till I got it working
I got Hugo working well and set up in Azure DevOps so rebuild the site when I commit and push an update to the master repo.
I really like it. Jekyll was great too, but now I think I prefer Hugo.
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@JasGot said in Static Web Site Design Tools:
Have you looked at Forestry.io ? It's a gui front end for most of the popular statics site generators:
Gatsby
Hugo
Gridsome
Jekyll
11ty
etc.That looks interesting. I'd prefer that for maybe a blog because it makes a nicer maybe more convenient writing experience IMO vs text based methods.
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@JasGot said in Static Web Site Design Tools:
Have you looked at Forestry.io ? It's a gui front end for most of the popular statics site generators
Looking now. I must be missing something, though. Because it looks like for my personal user it is $750/mo which seems, well, absolutely insane.
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Found TinaCMS, it would appear this is a tool for adding WordPress-like functionality back into a static generator. LOL
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@scottalanmiller said in Static Web Site Design Tools:
@JasGot said in Static Web Site Design Tools:
Have you looked at Forestry.io ? It's a gui front end for most of the popular statics site generators
Looking now. I must be missing something, though. Because it looks like for my personal user it is $750/mo which seems, well, absolutely insane.
Because of the features you need? I didn't look at the pricing until now. The free version won't work? I don;t know your use case, knowing you, you may need the pro version....
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@JasGot said in Static Web Site Design Tools:
@scottalanmiller said in Static Web Site Design Tools:
@JasGot said in Static Web Site Design Tools:
Have you looked at Forestry.io ? It's a gui front end for most of the popular statics site generators
Looking now. I must be missing something, though. Because it looks like for my personal user it is $750/mo which seems, well, absolutely insane.
Because of the features you need? I didn't look at the pricing until now. The free version won't work? I don;t know your use case, knowing you, you may need the pro version....
By "feature", yes... more than 3 websites. LOL If you were making just one website for yourself, it'd work just fine in free mode. But to make any number at all, it's crazy expensive. I'd hit the non-free in just what I'm doing this weekend.
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Simple site just whipped up in Hugo. Definitely way faster to churn out a really simple site in Hugo compared to WordPress once you get a process down. And deploying via Git is awfully nice.
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@scottalanmiller said in Static Web Site Design Tools:
Simple site just whipped up in Hugo. Definitely way faster to churn out a really simple site in Hugo compared to WordPress once you get a process down. And deploying via Git is awfully nice.
Where did you find a velcro cat and a house with carpet on the ceiling?
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@JasGot said in Static Web Site Design Tools:
@scottalanmiller said in Static Web Site Design Tools:
Simple site just whipped up in Hugo. Definitely way faster to churn out a really simple site in Hugo compared to WordPress once you get a process down. And deploying via Git is awfully nice.
Where did you find a velcro cat and a house with carpet on the ceiling?
When you work with vets, you find everything
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@scottalanmiller said in Static Web Site Design Tools:
Simple site just whipped up in Hugo. Definitely way faster to churn out a really simple site in Hugo compared to WordPress once you get a process down. And deploying via Git is awfully nice.
Since it uses Go's templating as a base, creating themes and extending themes is pretty easy. I've added custom parts to themes with custom types and it only took a small amount of time.
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@Obsolesce said in Static Web Site Design Tools:
@scottalanmiller said in Static Web Site Design Tools:
Playing with Hugo today and I'm liking it a lot. Thanks for pressuring me to stick with it till I got it working
I got Hugo working well and set up in Azure DevOps so rebuild the site when I commit and push an update to the master repo.
I really like it. Jekyll was great too, but now I think I prefer Hugo.
This is what I do for my blog. Except it's built with a GitLab runner and it uses GitLab pages to present it.
