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====== Static Site Generators at SDF ======

[[wp>static site generator|Static Site Generators]] (SSGs) provide a content generation environment incorporating templates--that can be customized to give your website a uniform look (with sidebars, added search bar, menus, etc)--along with a program that takes content files that you create by writing text files using a markup language, that, with a push of a button, generates an updated website and pushes the updates to your web folder for you. They are called "static" because the content is created at push time, in contrast to [[web_content_management|content management systems]] that use a database or files along with code to generate each page on the fly as a browser requests it. Consequently, websites generated via SSGs tend to be very quick and responsive in comparison. The trade-off is that changes require a regeneration and push of the new site, however the SSG should make this process quick and rather painless. 

There are a few [[wp>static site generator]] packages installed at SDF. Their templating systems are rather robust:
  * [[blogging_with_jekyll|Jekyll]] (needs ARPA membership)
  * [[blogging_with_Hugo| Hugo]] (USERs can run!)

You can also install these simple site generator progams in your user space to use:
  * [[a_simple_static_site_generator|SSG5]] (only needs USER membership level)
  * [[blogging_with_zen_static|Zen Static]]


There are also all kinds of alternative tools people are making all the time, that can give you a simplified SSG-like functionality, but much simpler, and can be run with just USER membership. For example:
  * [[https://alamantus.codeberg.page/siteleteer/#About%20siteleteer | Siteleteer]] is a cool page you can just copy to your local machine, create multiple wiki-like pages in your local environment, save the results, and [[transferring_files|remote copy]] it to your SDF web space, and voila you have a "sitelet" (it's all in one file). Using the existing file to add more content and then pushing this to your web space replacing the existing version is basically the same as a simple SSG!
  * [[https://github.com/oscarmorrison/md-page/blob/review/README.md | oscarmorrison's md-page]] is a very simple bit of javascript that lets you just write a web page in markdown, and the javascript converts it live into HTML. It's kind of like a very, very basic static site generator, though it does not manage multiple pages at all...