It has been for sometime the desire to redo the website. The main goals
being:
1. Make the Site Easier To Maintain.
2. Allow Others to Contribute/Manage the Updates.
I have offered to perform the work and have done some reviewing of the
past history of the discussions on this subject. In so doing I have taken
notes on possible options and done some preliminary research in potential
solutions. A General background is in order so that I can try to direct
the feedback/discussion to the desired goals stated.
History:
The website as been in existence since the early 2000s. An update for
the site occurred in around 2004 by Kris Jurka to Apache Forest. Forest
is a scripting engine that generates static pages that are then transfered
to the web server. That current mechanism is still in place to update
the website, but Forest is no longer being maintained as a project it
seems. Forest also does not seem to be conducive to the desire goal
#2 above. The web server host does not support CMS and it seems to be
desired to continue along the lines of a scripting engine to generate
static webpages for the redo.
Help: (Narrow Options)
* If you know of a scripting engine that is not listed below please reply.
* If you have experience with one listed please comment, seems good/not
so good and the language used if possible.
* If you have a few minutes please consider randomly selecting one on the
list to review so that you could let us know if it may be a good solution.
Thank you.
danap, Dana M. Proctor
Hyde:
http://hyde.github.io/
Sculpin:
http://sculpin.io/
Phrozn:
http://www.phrozn.info/en/
Bonsai:
http://tinytree.info/
Winter Smith:
http://jnordberg.github.io/wintersmith/
Pie Crust:
http://bolt80.com/piecrust/
Jekyll:
http://jekyllrb.com/
Middle Man:
http://middlemanapp.com/
Nanoc:
http://nanoc.ws/
Stasis:
http://stasis.me/
ToTo
https://github.com/cloudhead/toto
Staticmatic
https://github.com/staticmatic/staticmatic
Webgen
https://github.com/gettalong/webgen
Movable Type
http://www.movabletype.org/download.html
Pelican
http://docs.getpelican.com/en/3.2/