Static web site generators (was Anyone using Nikola on #!...)

MartinRF · 2013-11-29 20:21:53

Nikola is a static web-site generator:
http://www.getnikola.com/

/Martin

Last edited by MartinRF (2013-12-03 21:28:59)

Sector11 · 2013-11-29 20:57:01

MartinRF wrote:

Nikola is a static web-site generator:
http://www.getnikola.com/
/Martin

It looks interesting ...

To answer your question: No, I have no net presence, but I have a question. Is this what created your site?

EDIT: Never mind ... I see Bluefish there.

Last edited by Sector11 (2013-11-29 20:57:49)

brontosaurusrex · 2013-11-29 22:40:38

MartinRF wrote:

Nikola is a static web-site generator:
http://www.getnikola.com/
/Martin

Certainly looks interesting and they know that search engine is needed.

MartinRF · 2013-11-30 08:43:52

No, my site was created by hand. I recommend newbies to do it like this. It is a great learning experience and it discourages you from doing something too fancy.

I only learned about Nikola earlier this week. Right now I am just curious and will test without publishng the results. I installed Nikola yesterday night.

If I like it I may re-create my photo albums that are created using jAlbum today.

My first finding is installing Nikola assumes python-dev is installed and the installation instruction fails to mention this. A very quick response on the help forum saved the day.

/Martin

intoCB · 2013-11-30 09:34:08

Looks interesting.

Sector11 · 2013-11-30 16:30:21

I did websites in the 90's when things were simpler. I have a personal website here locally. My index.html is my "homepage" with half a dozen sub pages. I deleted Bluefish years ago - to bloated for my liking.

I've checked out your site - love your boat.

I was thinking maybe this might be a nice app to use locally.

gutterslob · 2013-11-30 16:47:58

Sector11 wrote:

I did websites in the 90's when things were simpler.

Mystery solved. All that geocities eye-rape was Sector11's doing!! =P

Sector11 · 2013-11-30 17:09:50

gutterslob wrote:

Sector11 wrote:
I did websites in the 90's when things were simpler.
Mystery solved. All that geocities eye-rape was Sector11's doing!! =P

I must, I must
Learn to keep mouth shut.

Wait a minute ... geocities? yahoo? Nope not me, not a single site.

brontosaurusrex · 2013-12-02 14:18:52

what do you mean?
http://wonder-tonic.com/geocitiesizer/c … 00#p348600

Sector11 · 2013-12-02 18:47:05

@ brontosaurusrex

That is just plain sick!

brontosaurusrex · 2013-12-02 19:27:13

MartinRF · 2013-12-02 22:13:18

Let's talk Nikola for a change.

I now have a few hours of tinkering behind me and it seems Nikola performes as advertised if you follow the instructions to the letter. Early days yet so I am not able to create something on my own accord -- I am still at the follow-tutorial-stage. There isn't a ton of tutorials and documentation but an active user forum exists.

Hyde is another alternative. I opted for Nikola because I found basically no documentation for Hyde.

/Martin

MartinRF · 2013-12-03 07:36:29

More on static web site generators:

I found four when searching for static web generator in our repos: Hyde, Jekyll, webgen0.5 and lazygal. The last one may not qualify as it is claimed to be a web album generator.

Searching for static web site generator on the web results in a large number of hits including some overviews.

/Martin

brontosaurusrex · 2013-12-03 11:12:10

Jekyll certainly wins in terms of beautifull home page and github reference, but i can't see integrated "search engine".

MartinRF · 2013-12-03 21:27:23

Here is a somewhat more informative Hyde site.

Too much of that thing called work today so no other news on this apart from me changingthe subject to better reflect where I think this is going.

/Martin

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brontosaurusrex · 2013-12-04 12:22:02

For /me all this looks way to complicated while offering way^way^way to little (If I would go to that static route I'd probably bash something up, at least that way I'd know how exactly its supposed to work, meantime wordpress wins by a big margin, again thats just my view on things).

MartinRF · 2014-01-26 10:54:19

I have now, finally (other obligations galore), worked my way through some Nikola tutorials and created a couple of web albums that I decided were ready for publication late yesterday:

Photos from Sweden
International Multihull Meetings

Yes, very basic but good enough for me. I have not spent much energy on looks.

Creating these albums was mostly a straight forward exercise once I hade whorked a bit with the tutorials. The only hickup was a conflict between Pil and Pillow. Once I got rid of Pillow album creation worked as adverticed.

Publishing (read up-loading to host server) exposed me to a bug in Nikola. While the album works perfectly when I test it locally links to the photos in the index.html files don't work on the hosting server. This is easy enough to fix using sed -- once you know what the problem is. Now that I got this sorted I am ready to ditch jAlbum which is going fully commercial by becomming ad/nag-ware.

I have been told the abovementioned bug only affects albums created by Nikola. Blogs and traditional web sites should be OK.

/Martin

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