Any static web site generators (cms'es with export-to-html, or dedicated scripts) with big collections of templates/themes (not for blogs)?
Want to write how-to/wiki/tutorial website. (Created just by me)
Will edit website on my computer.
Will host static files on Amazon S3.
Hacking my own solution or using simple generators, fails when I need to make layout/design. That is just not my skill. (Hence "big template/theme collection" in title/question)
After doing a Google search I came across this list https://iwantmyname.com/blog/2011/02/list-static-website-generators.html. The one that seemed to be what you where looking for was ikiwiki a wiki compiler that converts wiki pages into html. I would look at the themes on http://ikiwiki.info/theme_market/ an see what you like. Although this does not have a big collection of themes it seems that it was the best match to what you wanted. Also I believe there are a few themes shipped with the ikiwiki package although I am not sure how many. I would start there to see if what else you can find on that site.
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I am starting a new project and am trying to think about how to keep the need for content servers for non-dynamic resources (articles, API info, etc) to a minimum... to that end I'd like to (possibly) use static web content wherever possible rather than have live web servers (nodejs, Wordpress,etc) and serve things up from S3 and CloudFront (or similar CDNs).
Looking over the obvious static generators like Hugo, Pelican, Jekyll, etc I see that in terms of activity they are all pretty inactive from a Github perspective.
Anyone have any suggestions about new tools I should look at, or if the current ones are all more or less equal, how well do they scale in terms of managing larger content collections? Or will, if my needs get big enough, will I basically have to capitulate an go back to more a more server-centric solution?
You might want to have a closer look at Statamic:
https://statamic.com
It's a CMS without a DB and allows you to output a static html page:
https://docs.statamic.com/caching
VS2013 update 5, MVC5 using Areas
I have a stand-alone function programmed for a website. The functionality is a specific user interface to collect survey responses in a particular way. It has several controllers, a model and a group of views. The functionality is completely contained in an Area of the project, except for the Shared _Layout file that provides the main menu for consistency.
'Is it possible for me to' / 'how do I' compile this Area into a single or set of .dll file(s) that I could then add conveniently to other websites? I'm assuming creating something for transfer/download is very standard functionality. For example, I used Elmah.MVC for this site. What I want to do is pretty much create a package that can be downloaded in a similar way to how we integrate Elmah.MVC into a site. (Be certain I'm not talking about creating error logging software, I'm only using Elmah.MVC as an example of software that is easily integrated into other website applications.)
I've never compiled any website functionality into a .dll(s) for use elsewhere and would appreciate either some specific guidance, or perhaps what would be easier is to provide a link with a good step by step tutorial or explanation for how to do this. Most of what I've found on the web describes bits and pieces of doing this, but it's not enough for me to feel confident with it.
It seems to me there are a lot of 'moving parts' to taking a particular piece of an MVC application and turning it into something that is easily added to other projects.
A particular issue I don't quite grasp is the difference in downloaded packages between getting code and getting just the .dll(s). For instance, when I download an MVC5 site, I get controllers, models and views, but when I download Elmah I get a .dll and no code files. Also, I do understand the concept of transforms, but I'm just struggling right now with even getting from my programmed application into a 'package' regardless of the transforms that make it easy to integrate into another website.
These are just some of my questions I have about how to perform this particular process in developing deliverable and/or shareable software.
What you are looking to do is create a portable MVC Area project. A Portable Area is a set of reusable multi page functionality can be dropped into an application to provide rich functionality without having to custom build functionality that is literally the same in every application. An MVC Portable Area is really just a dll that contains the views, controllers, scripts, etc… needed to use in a website that is either a Web Forms website or an MVC website. A developer can use them for a reusable widget or a complete engine. I have actually used them for both. Here is a link with some basic info to get started. http://elegantcode.com/2012/04/06/mvc-portable-areas/
My freind and I want to setup a collaborative project where we both work on a HTML file (and do PHP) at the same time (bit like Google Docs share feature). I want to be able to work with him to teach him certain things in PHP and HTML while I also code at the same time. Any suggestions? I have a VPS I thought we could use for it so nothings really going to get in our way. Maybe something like GIT or something?
Sounds like what you need is a real-time collaborative text editor. Here's an extensive list from wikipedia.
I use Google Docs personally but Microsoft has added this type of functionality into Office and there are a slew of desktop and online tools on that link. I had looked into Etherpad before but i don't remember enough to suggest one or the other. All of the links are on the wikipedia article so I won't repeat here.
I have a simple HTML site with 100+ pages or so. I want to add a search bar at the top so the user can search the site. I know about Google Custom Search, but it shows ads unless you pay at least $100. Obviously I'd like ad-less search on my site for free if at all possible!
I've also heard about Lucene/Solr, but they do not actually crawl the site. For that I would apparently need Nutch.
Anyway, the site I have runs on a Microsoft IIS6 server, but I have basically no knowledge as to how Solr, Nutch, etc. gets "installed" on the server.
Also: I'd like to point out that I do have a local copy of the site. Perhaps I can do one big initial nutch "crawl" locally that will create an .xml for Solr?? That would help me get "up and running", but probably wouldn't be a good long-term solution.
..so should I just use Google Custom Search? or is there a not-extremely-painful-to-implement alternative? The brain hurts folks.
You did not mention how many search requests you want to handle but if you use the json-rest-api of google's custom search you have 100 searchqueries a day for free and you can display them without any ads on your page.
An simple example request can be found here.
Here is an easy way that works pretty well, although you may be looking for something more than this.
http://sitecomber.com/getsitecomber/
You can create code to paste into your site in about 2 minutes. It doesn't get easier than that. Search is powered by Google, but results are isolated to your website.
EDIT: This no longer works.
What are your thoughts on using Windows Live Writer communicating with your website as the content editing system?
Windows Live Writer supports multiple category blogs (i.e. can be news, articles, and blogs), multiple category pages, tagging, XHTML WYSIWYG editing, image and file uploading via services or ftp, and the client has a "Insert HTML" plug-in library with a lot of already developed plug-ins for popular sites.
The trickiest part is implementing all of the XmlRpc methods in your services, but some digging with Reflector has exposed them as being pretty simple to implement the features.
I've considered it, but it's kind of like putting a triangle into a round hole. It will fit, but not quite right. Since the primary focus is around blogging, the page editing would be counter intuitive if you presented to someone as a page editor.
Well in the case where a web site's normal update pattern is to post new "news" a.k.a. blog posts, the page editing then becomes secondary to update the static content.
I was thinking the exact same thing. Using Windows Live Writer or MS Word 2007 (it supports Atom Publishing as well) to edit web materials on a site would be awesome (in theory), right?
I tried looking into creating an AtomPub Server, (using Google Data API, Apache Abdera, or Project ROME), to create a simple atom publication server backend on Java Google App Engine. It would save entities and images into the GAE datastore. The saved data could be shown via a simple front end on the site. All editing would be done in MS Word.
But creating a custom Atom pub server turned out overwhelmingly hard for me. I'll throw in the towel for now, at least for the AtomPub protocol. Something dead-simple like a CRUD entity interface might still be possible for Windows Live Writer, as it supports simpler protocols.
As far as I know, it hasn't been done for GAE. Umbraco ASP.net CMS supports it though.