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Genuine question: Is there any attraction of this tool for folks who already know how to use a static site generator (SSG)? I'm guessing most people who unders

Genuine question: Is there any attraction of this tool for folks who already know how to use a static site generator (SSG)? I'm guessing most people who understand how to use git could catch onto an SSG overnight. (I should add that this is an impressive concept and I'm just begging for a reason to use it).

delluminatus 10y ago
Whether or not you use an SSG, I find the biggest hurdle is getting/making a good theme for your blog. It looks like this comes theme-included, which is actually a pretty big deal if you want to get up and running fast.
- WorldMaker 10y ago
  Yeah, Hubpress, Octopress, Jekyll Bootstrap, and at least one other I can't quite recall, are all the idea of having a preconfigured blog theme ready to go instead of having to build one from scratch (or stick with the very plain Jekyll default). They'll sometimes do things like pre-configure useful Jekyll plugins and provide additional scaffolding tools (this used to be a particularly big deal of Octopress, IIRC, for the versions of Jekyll before it added its own scaffolding system). It's a nice to have to get started quickly when you don't want to custom build a theme or you want someone else to figure out a lot of the basic configuration.
- Anthonny 10y ago
  Yes, HubPress is theme-included and the theme engine is the Ghost.io one. As Ghost is MIT, my idea was to use the same engine, so it's easy to build a new theme or add an existing ghost theme in HubPress
Tobold 10y ago
If understood this right (I didn't take a close look at the 3MB Javascript), this is SSG running in the browser, from the static site. So you don't have to run anything (except a browser) on your local machine (not even git).
wodenokoto 10y ago
For one, you can just log in and update your blog. No need to be at that computer that has your SSG software installed. EDIT: having tried hubpress just now, I take that back. I can't figure out how to post anything.
ben_jones 10y ago
It could be a good way to teach basic github usage.
steffoz 10y ago
Well, even if you do not understand Git, static website generators are starting to become a viable solution.. if you want to offer a web-based editing experience to your clients, you can use products like http://www.datocms.com/ http://www.datocms.com/ or https://forestry.io/ https://forestry.io/

delluminatus 10y ago

Whether or not you use an SSG, I find the biggest hurdle is getting/making a good theme for your blog. It looks like this comes theme-included, which is actually a pretty big deal if you want to get up and running fast.

WorldMaker 10y ago
Yeah, Hubpress, Octopress, Jekyll Bootstrap, and at least one other I can't quite recall, are all the idea of having a preconfigured blog theme ready to go instead of having to build one from scratch (or stick with the very plain Jekyll default). They'll sometimes do things like pre-configure useful Jekyll plugins and provide additional scaffolding tools (this used to be a particularly big deal of Octopress, IIRC, for the versions of Jekyll before it added its own scaffolding system). It's a nice to have to get started quickly when you don't want to custom build a theme or you want someone else to figure out a lot of the basic configuration.
Anthonny 10y ago
Yes, HubPress is theme-included and the theme engine is the Ghost.io one. As Ghost is MIT, my idea was to use the same engine, so it's easy to build a new theme or add an existing ghost theme in HubPress

Tobold 10y ago

If understood this right (I didn't take a close look at the 3MB Javascript), this is SSG running in the browser, from the static site. So you don't have to run anything (except a browser) on your local machine (not even git).

wodenokoto 10y ago

For one, you can just log in and update your blog. No need to be at that computer that has your SSG software installed. EDIT: having tried hubpress just now, I take that back. I can't figure out how to post anything.

ben_jones 10y ago

It could be a good way to teach basic github usage.

steffoz 10y ago

Well, even if you do not understand Git, static website generators are starting to become a viable solution.. if you want to offer a web-based editing experience to your clients, you can use products like http://www.datocms.com/ http://www.datocms.com/ or https://forestry.io/ https://forestry.io/