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1.2 KiB
Simple Blogging System (working title)
A blogging system designed to be simpler to use than existing solutions such as Hugo and Jekyll.
Goals
An outline of what I intend to accomplish with this project:
Design
Simple and easy to use. Instructions for use should not be very long, and a user familiar with blogging systems should be able to understand this without much effort.
Documentation should be simple and easy to understand for non-technical users.
Creation of a few CSS styles for simple blog layouts, but otherwise no big complicated themes, no JavaScript, and no hacky HTML generation.
Minimal external dependencies:
- lowdown for compiling markdown to HTML
- optipng for optimizing PNGs
- ImageMagick for optimizing JPGs, resizing images
Functionality
Does exactly what a blog needs:
- Basic metadata for each post
- Atom feed creation
- Optional table of contents (three levels)
- Support for static pages
- Content written in markdown
- Basic website styling -> One CSS file
And some extra quality-of-life features:
- Image thumbnail creation
- Parallel page compilation
- Integration with Mastodon-API for posting when a new blog post is published.