the current website is awesome, so this issue is not a major concern. this is only a suggestion based on my experience making websites in meteor, with a variety of static site generators, and now with docpad. i can lead the porting process if this is something we want.
for a site without dynamic content, a static site generator like docpad makes a lot of sense:
in my opinion much easier to understand as less programming and more data
easy and free to host as a github page, easy and cheap to host (as in pennies per year) using Amazon S3 or Rackspace Cloud Files
indexable by google without magic
no routing code as document templates become html pages (thus correspond to routes) and documents may contain partial templates
meta variables can be placed into documents at the site-level, document-level, document-within-a-document-level, or partial-level as json or yaml
plugins for every type of template (handlebars, ... ) or markup (markdown, ...) language under the sun
plugins can simplify features like auto-generated menus based on render templates, many documents to a page or many pages to a document, etc
less magic (meteor-only handlebars, meteor-only javascript) and more standard code (yaml/json/markdown/vanilla handlebars/commonjs javascript/...)
the only reason i am bringing this up now is to open a discussion of whether this is even remotely desired now before porting away from meteor becomes more difficult, such as after #3, #5. i don't mean to suggest meteor is bad, i just want to bring up an alternative i've come to love for sites like this that is quite popular.
docpad
the current website is awesome, so this issue is not a major concern. this is only a suggestion based on my experience making websites in meteor, with a variety of static site generators, and now with docpad. i can lead the porting process if this is something we want.
for a site without dynamic content, a static site generator like docpad makes a lot of sense:
the only reason i am bringing this up now is to open a discussion of whether this is even remotely desired now before porting away from meteor becomes more difficult, such as after #3, #5. i don't mean to suggest meteor is bad, i just want to bring up an alternative i've come to love for sites like this that is quite popular.
if we do want to use docpad, i would further suggest we use my skeleton repo as a starting point: https://github.com/ahdinosaur/init.docpad, as it contains goodies like browserify, less, semantic-ui, font-awesome, etc. examples of my websites using docpad are http://savecloyne.com (https://github.com/cloyne/savecloyne.com), http://holonomy.is (https://github.com/holonomy/holonomy.is), and http://dinosaur.is (https://github.com/ahdinosaur/dinosaur.is).
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