Introduction to the Static Site Generator (SSG)
Starts with the design goals and a review of the rationale for a web site content manager. It then covers installation and the instructions to adapt the program to serve your own homepage! (pdf)
The programs to generate a web sitea.k.a. content management systems
available in 2018 did not satisfy my expectations but I
felt that most of the tools required to build a static site generator
where available. Thus I embarked on building Yet Another Static
Site Generator adaptet to the needs of an academicThe web contains a surpsing amount of advice,from
- a consultant, or older, from 2012, by publisher,
or - current to go
to a static site generator and markdown, 2,
- yet another commerical
service and - another howto
.
- searchable list of papers ready for download,
- texts readable in a browser but printable as
pdf
.
After a short introduction to the Static Site Generator SSG follow
the instruction to download and to adapt the program to produce a
personalized homepage. Not much to do other than organizing content
pages in directories, include title and abstract to each content page
and add a title and abstract tot the index.md
page in each
directory.
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The Static Site Generator
My goals for daino. What is different from other Static Site Generators? The design goals and rationale and functionality testing. (pdf) 2019-03-05 -
Build your site with SSG
The steps necessary to build a site. (pdf) 2019-03-05 -
The overall setup of a site
The file describing the overall setup of a site. (pdf) 2019-03-05 -
The structure of the page files
The structure of the source files for the web pages consist of a header (using YAML syntax) and the page content written in markdown. (pdf) 2019-03-05
Directories with more related texts:
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Internal documentation
The internals of the Static Site Generator (SSG).