[[!meta title="We are the static site generation!"]] # Current practice Currently [ikiwiki](http://ikiwiki.info) is adopted by the following reasons: 1. There is a [Debian package](https://packages.debian.org/stable/ikiwiki). 2. It's flexible enough to support both local or remote side static compilation: * Local compilation by calling the `ikiwiki` command directly. * Remotelly by using a [git hook](http://ikiwiki.info/rcs/git/). When it's said **both** it means that you don't need to choose either of the two options: you can choose or both simultaneously. ## Static site example Here comes the mandadoty "Hello world" example from the statically generated site realm: mkdir blog && cd blog echo "Hello world..." > index.mdwn ikiwiki --rebuild --exclude www . www That's it! You have a generated site sitting at your `www` subfolder which can be copied remotelly using `rsync`. ## Version control It's a good pratice to keep your work under version control: git init echo "/.ikiwiki" > .gitignore echo "/recentchanges" >> .gitignore echo "/www" >> .gitignore git add . git commit -m "Initial import" ## Add a bit of sofistication * Use [this Makefile](/Makefile) as an starting point to refresh and publish your wiki by simply running `make`. * Use a [complete ikiwiki template](https://git.sarava.org/?p=templates.git;a=tree;f=ikiwiki;h=HEAD) and change to your needs. * If you're a automation junkie, try the [puppet-ikiwiki](https://git.sarava.org/puppet-ikiwiki.git) module. ## Theming Currently using [Ikiwiki](http://ikiwiki.info) with [Bootstrap](http://twitter.github.io/bootstrap/): * [Templates](https://github.com/tgpfeiffer/ikiwiki-bootstrap-template). * [Bootswatch](http://bootswatch.com) themes. ## Ikiwiki references * [Ikiwiki](http://ikiwiki.info). * [Improving Ikiwiki style with Bootstrap](https://ceops.eu/posts/Improving%20Ikiwiki%20style%20with%20Bootstrap/). * [How to have a nice design for ikiwiki](http://www2.tblein.eu/posts/How_to_have_a_nice_design_for_ikiwiki/). # Alternatives * [Static Site Generators](https://staticsitegenerators.net/). * [Static Site Generators at GitHub](https://github.com/skx/static-site-generators). * [Replacing Jekyll with Pandoc and a Makefile](https://tylercipriani.com/2014/05/13/replace-jekyll-with-pandoc-makefile.html). * [Brane Dump: Static Comments in Jekyll](http://www.hezmatt.org/~mpalmer/blog/2011/07/19/static-comments-in-jekyll.html). * [Hyde](https://github.com/lakshmivyas/hyde/) ([package](https://packages.debian.org/stable/hyde)). * [Gollum](https://github.com/gollum/gollum). * [Hugo](https://gohugo.io/). * [Amber](https://github.com/leapcode/amber). * [Grav](http://getgrav.org/). * [Hakyll](http://jaspervdj.be/hakyll/) ([package](https://packages.debian.org/sid/libghc-hakyll-dev)). * [Jekyll](http://jekyllrb.com/) ([package](https://packages.debian.org/stable/jekyll)). * [Static site generators for building web sites](https://lwn.net/Articles/541299/). * [Pelican Static Site Generator, Powered by Python](http://blog.getpelican.com/) ([pacote](https://packages.debian.org/sid/python-pelican)). * [Middleman: Hand-crafted frontend development](https://middlemanapp.com/). * [Juvia: a commenting server similar to Disqus and IntenseDebate](https://github.com/phusion/juvia).