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Posted by washere
Jan 6, 2018 at 02:54 PM
MadaboutDana wrote:
>But there’s something about a simple, static website that pleases me
>enormously. The simplicity. The speed. The elegance.
Getting back on-topic, and it’s an interesting thread topic, the above statement is true. The most interesting devs choose simple minimal Zen like choices just like the above quote for their own personal musings sites. Steve Jobs himself was an advocate of minimalism, function follows form, simple elegance etc and even liked his surroundings like that since the seventies. Hate filled greedy or only business focused/strictly official minded people with closed minds never can get it. They just follow the shiny balls they think is in vogue. But less is more.
I’ve played round with many of these genre of tools, as well as the opposite i.e. beefier packages used for huge Mega commercial sites, and always look out for new ones. There are quite a few better ones than Hugo and Spelt. Often started as small projects by the best devs for personal use and then taken up by thousands and developed further. It’s a very classy genre.
Posted by tightbeam
Jan 6, 2018 at 05:26 PM
Skywatcher: You make some good points.
“It’s probably the same with writing and outlining software. Developers are not idiots, they’re aware of the fact that Windows is 85% of the market, but it seems that the majority of users of this type of applications are Mac users ( I honestly don’t know why ), and so they develop for where the USERS are.”
Maybe the Windows users aren’t there because the developers, being Mac users, don’t develop for them.
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Jan 7, 2018 at 04:07 PM
washere wrote:
>I’ve played round with many of these genre of tools, as well as the
>opposite i.e. beefier packages used for huge Mega commercial sites, and
>always look out for new ones. There are quite a few better ones than
>Hugo and Spelt.
Such as?
Posted by washere
Jan 7, 2018 at 07:48 PM
Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
washere wrote:
>>I’ve played round with many of these genre of tools, as well as the
>>opposite i.e. beefier packages used for huge Mega commercial sites, and
>>always look out for new ones. There are quite a few better ones than
>>Hugo and Spelt.
>
>Such as?
I usually need db ones but from over a dozen minimalist blog or microblog ones I’ve dabbled, for one:
Posted by MadaboutDana
Jan 7, 2018 at 10:48 PM
I’ve just discovered the macOS and iOS app MWeb has a very powerful static site generation feature, along with some nice built-in themes.
What’s more, the resulting pages load very fast indeed.
Working out exactly how MWeb should be set up as a static blog generator takes a little research, but actually, it’s very easy: you can right-click on any folder (in the desktop version) and set it to “Site”, whereupon a panoply of site generation tools becomes available.
This is a Markdown app that’s under steady development - as others have remarked on the MWeb forums, it’s clear the developer eats his own dog food. MWeb also supports the full MultiMarkdown syntax (including e.g. tasks, tables etc.)