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webgen - static website generation made easy

webgen is used for generating static websites from templates and content files (which can be written in any markup language). It can generate dynamic content like menus on the fly and comes with many powerful extensions.

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Contact & Help

The author of webgen is Thomas Leitner -- he is reachable at mailto:t_leitner@gmx.at.

You can discuss webgen or find help on the webgen-users Google group.

Or you can join the IRC channel #webgen on Freenode.

Description

webgen is a free (GPL-licensed) command line application for generating static websites. It combines content with template files to generate HTML files. This allows one to separate the content from the layout and reuse the layout for many content files.

Apart from this basic functionality, webgen offers many features that makes authoring websites easier:

The main documentation lives at http://webgen.gettalong.org/documentation/.

Installation

webgen is written in Ruby, so you need the Ruby interpreter on your system. You can get it from http://ruby-lang.org/. See http://webgen.gettalong.org/installation.html for more information.

You can install webgen via Rubygems:

$ gem install webgen

Or via the setup.rb method if you have downloaded a tarball or zip file:

$ ruby setup.rb config
$ ruby setup.rb setup
$ ruby setup.rb install

License

GPLv3 - see the COPYING file.