GUI static site generator recommendation

BenCollver · 01-30-2015, 06:34 PM

Good day,

I am window shopping for a GUI static site generator. Jekyll or OctoPress could do the trick, combined with a programmer's editor and file manager. Any other recommendations?

Thank you,

-Ben

veerain · 02-04-2015, 08:09 AM

Bluefish is a good programmer editor.

TB0ne · 02-04-2015, 09:22 AM

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Originally Posted by BenCollver

Good day,
I am window shopping for a GUI static site generator. Jekyll or OctoPress could do the trick, combined with a programmer's editor and file manager. Any other recommendations?

There are many, but I'd look at Metalsmith, Logya, obelisk, or pretzel. They've been updated fairly recently, and are under pretty active development.

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Originally Posted by veerain

Bluefish is a good programmer editor.

...and bluefish does NOT generate static sites, which is what the OP asked for.

BenCollver · 02-04-2015, 11:17 PM

Alas, Metalsmith, Logya, obelisk, and pretzel are all CLI SSGs. No GUI.

vharishankar · 02-12-2015, 09:58 AM

I wrote one some time ago.

http://harishankar.org/software/biaweb_qt.php

You can use it to generate a static blog-like or articles site with one level of categories. It uses SQLite DB and outputs to HTML via templates (editable and built-in in the database.) It doesn't have a WYSIWYG editor, but you can easily insert HTML tags via the GUI.

Not sure if it will fit your needs, but I was visiting LQ after a *long* time and saw this thread, so I thought I'd chip in.

Oh, and it comes with a simple full-text search script if you need it (a python CGI script).

BenCollver · 02-13-2015, 08:50 AM

Hi Vharishankar,

Your program runs on my computer. I like the minimal design. Thanks for the link.

Another idea is to build a static site based on a web CMS. I guess many effectively do that with a full page cache.
https://www.digitalocean.com/communi...nx-on-your-vps

Best Regards,

-Ben

vharishankar · 02-15-2015, 09:53 AM

Glad you like it. Here's my reviews site which was built using that tool:
http://harishankar.org/reviews/

You can check how categories and links are generated. Also you can check the simple site search engine.

My main purpose for that GUI was to maintain my reviews site. So you have a star rating system built into the articles system. I display a list of the highest rating reviews on the sidebar.

sundialsvcs · 02-17-2015, 07:45 AM

And there are many commercial sites, like Weebly, that take the approach of static generation of content. It's very wasteful to do what a traditional CMS does: to generate web-site pages from scratch every single time that one is requested. Even a very small script can quickly spit-out a web site containing proper static links, and the result runs just as fast as it did a decade ago.