YES, Well good ol'fation HTML with CSS has worked since the lasted from 70s to present. With Linx. I haven't a clue if it's a over complicated thing or just right tool for the job thing, it might be a little of both. Sufficed to say they they're strength is making a a few pages with a template. The challenge the ones i know of run into is folder management. Updating them is sometimes a slight issue,
Ever mis place a file?, or lots of them? Suffice to say say that's something that Wordpress tries to avoid by encouraging you to upload your stuff, make a draft, a copy, then update but it's all a matter of taste ^_^ On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 9:52 AM, Owen Densmore <o...@backspaces.net> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 9:31 AM, Gillian Densmore <gil.densm...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Is generator the right word? >> > > Yes. It's called that because you do an initial setup which establishes > the basic layout of the site. Then when you add content, Markdown files > generally, you run a CLI tool that generates your basic > HTML/CSS/Javascript site. > > It is only "static" in that there is no code on the server that is run, no > databases, php, etc. Just plain HTML/CSS/Javascript. This makes them *very* > fast, but more important, simple enough that you use the tools you used as > a developer: node, javascript, canvas/webgl, and so on. > > There are no mysteries. You know what is happening, and how. All the > "dynanics" is done off-line and the user of the site suffers no silly > delays caused by php/sql/etc. And they can be far more dynamic than you'd > think. Comments are possible. AJAX allows "dynamic" access to content. But > still no more than an HTTP server needed. > > And you can run it anywhere: Dropbox, Amazon S3, GitHub Pages and many > more that simply provide HTTP access to your data. > > I like the cultural aspect as well: when things get too complicated, they > implode under their own weight. I believe this is happening with websites & > CMSs. Folks are sick of the complexity of WordPress and they realize that > they really don't need 80% of their far-too-many features. > > -- Owen > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >
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