Static site generators are popular these
days. For small sites, the ability to quickly author content using simple tools
is key. The ability to use lower-cost (even free) hosting, often without any
dynamic capabilities, is good for trying to maintain a budget. For larger
sites, the ability to serve content quickly and cheaply is beneficial, and
since most pages are read far more often than they are written, generating a
full web page to store on the filesystem can improve performance (and lower
costs).
For me, I like the convenience of using Github Pages
to host project-oriented websites. The project itself is already on Github, so
why not keep the website closely tied to it so it doesn't get out-of-date? For
an organization like the Chicago Perl Mongers, Github
can even host custom domains, allowing easy collaboration on websites.
It's through the Chicago.PM website that I was introduced to Octopress, a
blogging engine built on Jekyll. It's through using Octopress that I decided to
write my own static site generator,
Statocles.
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