I like the philosophy behind Markdown: you write a simple text file and this is your article. If you want, you can fire up `pandoc` and convert it to HTML to make a nice website. Then, make it a PDF for constant rendering.<p>I personally started using Markdown as well for my website. I have a simple Makefile that finds `*.md` files and convert them to HTML using pandoc with some custom options. I can edit files very simply with vim instead of an online editor bloated with Javascript.
This seems perfect for all my non-technical friends who want to blog. Maybe a local WYSIWYG text editor that converted to markdown would be the perfect complement for anyone who doesn't know it already. That, or maybe they should just learn markdown haha.
Here is a great list of a bunch of open source static site generators - some geared toward blogs and some to generic sites:<p><a href="https://www.staticgen.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.staticgen.com/</a><p>(not my project, just a happy user)
Im happy with <a href="https://github.com/blogist/blogist" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/blogist/blogist</a> using gist as backend i can even use org mode to write blog
Hahaha. I've been writing this <i>exact</i> thing myself on-and-off for the last couple of weeks. This does literally everything I wanted my own project to do. Oh well.
Compare to Prose <a href="https://github.com/prose/prose" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/prose/prose</a>:<p>- uses Jekyll. CMS-free. Does blogging. also Markdown based, but additionally supports HTML formatting<p>- host your own web server, or use GitHub Pages. GitHub Pages is for free and you get GitHub's superb traffic capacity and uptime. <a href="https://pages.github.com" rel="nofollow">https://pages.github.com</a><p>- GitHub instead of Dropbox for storage, collaboration and versioning<p>- host your own Prose instance, or use <a href="http://prose.io" rel="nofollow">http://prose.io</a>