Irrational Exuberance

You are writing a comment about Making Static Dynamic Again; AYM CMS, here is a quick summary:

A few lines of code and a few minutes of refactoring and my previous blog post evolved into a full-fledged static content management system based on the Django templating system. It aims to facilitate the creation of complex static websites quickly and with minimal human effort. Welcome to AYM CMS.

You are responding to this comment written by Luke Hatcher on September 16th 2008, 11:24.

This has some interesting utility in creating offline copies of sites as well. I had a crazy project a while back to scrape documentation and other stuff into a Django powered site that I then crawled (via a bit of python) out into static HTML files before putting it onto distributable media. I could have saved a lot of time just using this. (Where were you then, Will?!)

I could also see this being used similarly to Movable Type's static publishing. You can easily add a bit of interactivity by using a hosted comments solution like Disqus on top of your static sites.

(Disclaimer: Disqus is my hammer and everything looks like a nail right now)

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