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Ask HN: How do you blog for your startup/site?
I tend to develop with Node.js/express using EJS as the templating language, and have several sites with a blog, but I've never found a great solution for keeping the blog in-house.
I tend to use Blogger or Tumblr or something like that, but it's a pain to keep the look/feel the same.
I've seen various static-site generators such as Jekyll, but I really want to be able to reuse my main site's header.ejs - and I haven't found one that does that.
Any thoughts?
- adityar 11y agoblogger redirected to subdomain (blog.startup.com)
- brudgers 11y ago1. Does the time saved by reusing the header.ejs dwarf the time spent searching for and evaluating blog platforms? 2. How hard would it be to build a deploy system that updates a Jekyll site when the header.ejs changes? 3. Maybe a CMS is a better choice. Good luck.
- crypticlizard 11y agomedium redirected through my domain (which is super cool, check out the signal v noise post on switching to medium...) TLDR: using medium means you are letting it be easy, and avoiding the cobbler's own shoe type of problem.
- Huhty 11y agoWordpress is never a bad choice IMO.
- akbar501 11y agoI use Hugo (https://github.com/spf13/hugo https://github.com/spf13/hugo) to generate both the DynomiteDB website and blog. I've tried many different blogging solutions and I find Hugo to be exceptionally easy, especially when combined with GitHub pages. The current blogging workflow to publish an article is only 3 steps: vi some-new-post.md && ./build && git push There are SEO benefits to having your website and blog use the same domain, which is one more reason why we chose this route.
- siquick 11y agoJust switched over to Medium.com with a custom domain. The writers on the blog love the interface and the added bonus that their articles can get instant exposure to Mediums readers.