Webgen.py

Wednesday, 05 November 2008

Webgen.py is a static website generator. It is written in Python and the source is Free and Open Source. You can download the source code from github.

Features

• No external Dependencies.
• Choice of Markup Languages - textile, markdown
• Syntax highlighting with pygments
• CSS Layout framework - YUI CSS Grids
• Styling with Sinorcaish

Installation

$ git clone git://github.com/btbytes/webgen.py.git

Usage

• Set author name, baseurl and output directory options in config.py
• Run $python webgen.py

Customisation

Make layout customisations in template.html. Refer to YUI Grid documentation to understand the grid layout. Grid builder is handy to create layouts visually.

Instances of webgen.py usage

• Zed Shaw (src)
• Steve Johnson