Web Authoring Tools - tool for mini website from static pages with templates?

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tool for mini website from static pages with templates?

2005-12-09, 6:55 pm

What I am looking for goes a bit like this:

o) Basically you write HTML + something.
o) A software compiles the HTML+something into a static website.

The +something would support this:

o) To get for example, consistent header and footer, you want some
kind of "include" mechanism that simply inserts a fixed text at the
place of the include.

o) Auto-generated intra-page table of content would be nice,
e.g. guided by <a name="xyz"> tags.

o) Auto-generated "your are here" link that shows the nesting level of
the current page would be nice. Something like

Home >> Voodoo >> Magic >> current software >> download

o) Auto-generated sitemap.

o) Because there is no search possible on static pages, an index very
similar to the one at the end of a book would be nice.

o) Auto-generated tree like navigation guided by the given directory
structure.

A good example of what I am looking for is Javadoc. It fulfills almost
all the points above. But it is not generally applicable.

If you are aware of a system like this, please let me know. I had a
look
at apache's forrest, but was not impressed. While it provides lots of
features, I have to learn yet another document language and
I have to specify the site structure by hand.

Thanks,
Harald.

Eric Lindsay

2005-12-10, 3:36 am

In article <1134149095.892282.167500@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
"HK" <pifpafpuf@gmx.de> wrote:

> What I am looking for goes a bit like this:
>
> o) Basically you write HTML + something.
> o) A software compiles the HTML+something into a static website.
>
> The +something would support this:
>
> o) To get for example, consistent header and footer, you want some
> kind of "include" mechanism that simply inserts a fixed text at the
> place of the include.

I failed to find anything I liked for doing almost exactly that job.
That said, a lot of the blogging tools seem to be very close. If I were
looking for a blog, I am sure they would be fine.

> o) Auto-generated intra-page table of content would be nice,
> e.g. guided by <a name="xyz"> tags.

How are you generating your HTML pages? I was thinking of roughing up
something that tried to force me to put a structure to the pages as I
wrote them. In this case, marking all <h2> <h3> etc headers with a <a
name="tag"> would seem a good move.
>
> o) Auto-generated "your are here" link that shows the nesting level of
> the current page would be nice. Something like
>
> Home >> Voodoo >> Magic >> current software >> download
>
> o) Auto-generated sitemap.
>
> o) Because there is no search possible on static pages, an index very
> similar to the one at the end of a book would be nice.
>
> o) Auto-generated tree like navigation guided by the given directory
> structure.

I like the idea of the additional features you mention.

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