sbs - Simple Blogging System

A simple static site generator designed to be simpler to use than existing solutions such as Hugo and Jekyll.

Installation

Place the sbs program and the sbs.1 manpage in the appropriate paths for your operating system. /usr/local/bin/ and /usr/local/man/man1/ are likely respective paths.

Usage

Please refer to the manpage for usage and other information.

What Can It Do?

After trying out Hugo and other popular static site generators, I found that even the solutions which call themselves simple are too complicated for what I need for my websites. I also found that I need a greater degree of control over the generated output without having to spend hours creating or fiddling with templates. I wanted to make something that does the bare minimum of what I need out of a static site generator/blogging system while making it as painless as possible to write content for my site.

sbs therefore has the following features:

• Create static HTML pages from Markdown documents with minimal "templates"
• Metadata support (MultiMarkdown)
• Easy creation of an Atom feed containing the content of all posts
• Basic website styling through one CSS file
• Simple configuration file