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Build a Static Site Generator #3

Closed Chippers255 closed 9 years ago

Chippers255 commented 10 years ago

Due to the site being hosted on github we cannot rely on server side scripting. Therefore we are using a Static website. We need to develop a python site generator so future use/updates to the site can be made easily with minimal chance of creating errors.

dideler commented 10 years ago

Why not use one of the many existing ones?

Chippers255 commented 10 years ago

I probably will. Any recommendations?

dideler commented 10 years ago

I recommend Jekyll. GitHub Pages already uses it, so it's super easy to get started.

http://jekyllrb.com/docs/github-pages/ https://help.github.com/articles/using-jekyll-with-pages

You don't even need to install Jekyll locally if you don't want to, since you can edit, create, and preview your markdown files via the web interface of GitHub. GitHub Pages will rebuild your static site whenever it sees a new commit.

Chippers255 commented 9 years ago

Going to drop this issue, it will take to much time to implement for the minor changes we rarely need to make. Maybe we could make a project of it with the CSC but not for now.

dideler commented 9 years ago

:+1: -- agreed that this isn't needed, editing the site as is works well enough.