Makesite.py
is an extremely simple (and extremely light) static site
generator written in Python. You write your content in text files and
Makesite.py
does the rest for you. It works by taking as input an
HTML template, a CSS style, and a bunch of text files (in Markdown)
and generating static HTML pages.
-
Download and place the following files into a folder:
makesite.py -- the Python script to generate each webpage template.html -- the HTML skeleton of each webpage style.css -- the CSS style of each webpage index.md -- the text content of a webpage (Markdown)
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Run:
python makesite.py
This will generate an index.html
that you can display with your browser.
Note that every time you make any modification you need to run
python makesite.py
again (that's what static site means).
Makesite.py
is not a blog generator! If a blog is what you are looking for,
there are a few dozen blog softwares out there. Makesite.py
was developed
with the following concepts in mind:
- Extremely simple (very easy to understand and modify)
- No installation required (run it anywhere)
- No configuration required (you provide a text file, you get an HTML page)
- No templating language (just pure HTML, CSS and Python!)
- All functions in one single script (that I can actually understand)
- Navigation bar generated for you (customizable if you want)
If all you want is to simply put HTML content on the web (such as a personal webpage), then this might be the right tool for you.
Please note that this project is under development. Features are being added and modified.
To get you started there is a full basic website example (with a Makefile
included):
example/
|__ Makefile
|__ makesite.py
|__ template.html
|__ style.css
|__ index.md
|__ first/
|__ index.md
|__ second/
|__ index.md
|__ third/
|__ index.md
To generate the HTML pages (after you've downloaded the folder example
):
cd example
python makesite.py
or using the Makefile
:
cd example
make site
Now all you have to do is replace the content of the Markdown files (.md
)
with your own. For each Markdown file an HTML page will be created and added
to the navigation bar. Then you just upload the content of the example
folder
(the .html
, .css
, .jpg
, etc.) to any webserver.
In the above example each webpage (Markdown file) is placed into a sub-folder to keep things organized (with the exception of the website's landing page, the 'Home' page), but you can have all the pages in the same folder if you prefer (just give them different names).
To customize your website you can play around with the style.css
and/or
template.html
(see how below).
A Makefile
is also provided for convenience. For example, on a Mac/Linux
machine you can generate the website, display it in your browser, and upload
it to GitHub as:
cd example
make site
make show
make git
Check out my own website made with Makesite.py
: fspaolo.net
Questions/Comments? Send me an email: [email protected]