Re: proposal to simplify the website

Kris,

How many changes go everywhere ?

Any suggestions on a simple templating system ?

Dave Cramer

dave.cramer(at)credativ(dot)ca
http://www.credativ.ca

On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 1:48 PM, Kris Jurka <books(at)ejurka(dot)com> wrote:

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>
> On Thu, 25 Apr 2013, Dave Cramer wrote:
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> > The machines that host the sites are not setup with CMS. There isn't that
> > much content and every CMS I've ever seen has a learning curve. This is
> > simple, store the html in git, pull it to the machine
> > The biggest part of the site is the API docs, which is generated with
> > javadoc.
> >
>
> My concern is that without any templating system at all, some simple
> changes are going to require a copy and paste into every single page.
> Don't we need something beyond plain static pages that are directly
> edited?
>
> Forrest is kind of a dead project at this point, but there are a ton of
> other templating systems that generate static pages that are much more
> lightweight than Forrest. Shouldn't we consider one of them?
>
> Kris Jurka
>