website options

[Christian Pietsch]

Hi Lisa,
hello list,

On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 01:39:04PM +0000, Haitz, Lisa (haitzlm) wrote:
> I think some of your choice may depend on who is using your site to update content. For example, we have 50 editors on our site.  I alone manage 42 sites by myself.
> 
> Are you the only one on your site doing updates? if so, a static site might work for you. If not, you will be better of with a CMS.

I am sorry if I did not make myself clear, but you seem to confuse
manually generated static sites (which you would create in a text
editor or something like Dreamweaver) with static sites that come out
of a static site generator such as Jekyll.

GitHub Pages are based on Jekyll, and they work perfectly fine with
any number of contributors. Those you do not feel comfortable using
Github or Git directly can use http://prose.io/ for editing site
content online.

Cheers,
Christian


> On September 29, 2015, at 3:30 AM, Christian Pietsch <chr.pietsch+web4lib at GOOGLEMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> Hi Shannon,
> 
> dynamically generated websites have turned out to be terribly brittle,
> slow, and insecure. Current HTML5 is so powerful that for most use
> cases, you don't really need them. Not even for blogs.
> 
> I would always first try to use a static website generator such as
> Jekyll <https://jekyllrb.com/>, which is free and open source.
> It allows you to author blog posts in Markdown which is essentially
> plain text with very unobtrusive markup like people use in e-mails.
> 
> Cheers,
> Christian

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  Christian Pietsch · http://purl.org/net/pietsch
  LibTec (Library Technology and Knowledge Management) department
  of Bielefeld University Library, Bielefeld, Germany

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