Re: static website (and blog) generator?

Can anyone recommend a static website generator -- as opposed to my current hand-rolled setup?

Personally, I use a similar hand-rolled setup for my main site based on Template Toolkit with some content generated from pod files. If you're interested I can provide you with the code, but there's only one really interesting piece in it and that's a custom include provider (I didn't like the default include system).

For my blog (see profile) I got extremely lazy and just dumped wordpress on a subdomain, because I wanted to allow comments and didn't want to think about design or anything but just posting stuff once a week or so.

Further, I've been wanting to add a blog to the site as well. Is there any reason I should avoid using statically generated html files for a blog?

Static files will work well. You may need some server scripts if you want to have public comments.

"What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"

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Re^2: static website (and blog) generator? by flexo (Sexton) on Dec 17, 2007 at 22:30 UTC
Thank you, Joost. Glad to hear someone else does it frontier-style as well. ;-) Regarding the blog, I don't think I need anything as fancy as WP, but just need to decide between simple generated static files, and (probably) blosxom. I notice the links at the blosxom site look just like static urls, so, both alternatives will look the same to the user anyway.	[reply]
Re^3: static website (and blog) generator? by Joost (Canon) on Dec 17, 2007 at 22:34 UTC
Even if you're going with CGI scripts (no mod_perl but dynamic content) it's reasonably easy to have nice-looking urls that don't even show the actually executed script. One commonly used option is to configure a url-to-script mapping using mod_rewrite. ~~mod_proxy~~ mod_rewrite should be available and configurable via .htaccess files on most hosts that provide CGI. "What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"	[reply]