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[Rey Dhuny]

> yeah i just wanted to get my point across that sometimes simple is best and don't forget the lost art of coding in notepad 

I very much like Jekyll because writing content is simply a case of creating a markdown file in the relevant directory and writing it in Vim.

It's super simple, as it should be :) Here is an example of a blog post I wrote for my Jekyll-powerd blog: https://raw2.github.com/rey/reyhan.org/gh-pages/_posts/2013-03-12-jekyll-archive-without-plugins.md

Rey 


On Friday, 10 January 2014 at 11:53, Earl G wrote:

> yeah i just wanted to get my point across that sometimes simple is best and don't forget the lost art of coding in notepad
> if jekyll fits the need then this is perfect
> 
> 
> 
> On 10 January 2014 12:37, Christian <me at rndm.de (mailto:me at rndm.de)> wrote:
> > On 10.01.2014 11:57, Earl G wrote:
> > > drupal is way to bloated wordpress way too insecure. and neither of
> > > them are downloadable as they are db based.
> > >
> > > i am assuming that anyone who is going to edit the blog will have a
> > > basic understanding of html
> > >
> > > As the site needs to be portable as in downloadable, pdfable and
> > > made to run offline.
> > >
> > > Is there any reason it cant be built in html?
> > >
> > > a webmaster can update it and push out new pages.
> > >
> > > i know this goes against scaling and there will be argument that it
> > > should be ruby or jekyll or octopus or whatever garbage is in
> > > fashion at the moment.
> > >
> > > "Jekyll is basically a set of markdown files you edit in a text
> > > editor and then they're rendered in the browser as valid HTML by
> > > the generator (liquid, I thin" seems to be it solves a problem that
> > > dosent exist.
> > >
> > 
> > Jekyll generates HTML that can be put on any server that serves static
> > files.
> > 
> > The advantage of Jekyll is that you can define templates and includes
> > that simplify your development work and reduce repetition in your code.
> > 
> > Using markdown, textile or another text to html generators, helps
> > content creators to write their texts without having to worry about html.
> > It's rendered into your jekyll template and stored as a simple html file.
> > 
> > In the end you have to distribute the generated html, images and css
> > files and nothing more.
> > 
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