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To: i-node who wrote (748558)10/22/2013 2:48:39 AM
From: FJB  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1574098
 
I found a couple of interesting intro to Jekyll sites. This quote from the first one cracked me up.

Conclusion

Well, that’s your introduction to Jekyll – the simple, blog aware, static site generator. The next time you’re building a brochure-style, business-card-y, micro-portfolio site, think you’ll give Jekyll a try? Let me know in the comments and thank you so much for reading!
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This site begins to explain how to use data with Jekyll.

From straight up blog and page content sites like this one to advanced map and data portals, we can use Jekyll to generate sites that rival the layout flexibility of our most complex Drupal sites with none of the development and maintenance challenges a dynamic CMS introduces. Where we need server-side functionality, we patch it in using external APIs. With some clever templating, we can configure our Jekyll sites to output content APIs like RSS and JSON feeds. For instance we're using a JSON template to generate the index we use for this site's search feature. When we need to include large datasets into our sites, we use server-side scripts that break down the dataset into individual JSON files that serve as an API for our site. We can even convert datasets into YML, Jekyll's metadata format, and insert the data throughout our site templates. With embedded external APIs and a flexible templating and generation process, our sites look and feel dynamic with incredible performance and reliability.
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