[Year 12 IT Apps] Free Au Open Source Website Builder

[stephen at melbpc.org.au]

Hi all,

> From: Jamin Henley <Jamin.Henley atMajorSchool .qld.edu.au>
> Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:17:17 +1000
> Subject: RE: [OZTL_NET] Web design downloads

I have been using wordpad (I still do for work) but I now use AsciiDoc
Website Builder for my personal sites.  It is a great free application.  

You can download it from here  http://jared.henley.id.au/software/awb/.
 
Teacher Librarian
(Major School) Christian College
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And at the above site, a clever Open Source Website Builder. Thanks, Jared

Here's what he says about his AsciiDoc Website Builder (non-microsoft-only)


'.. The AsciiDoc Website Builder combines simple but powerful AsciiDoc 
markup with templates, blog and image gallery generation, and sitemap.xml 
generation to allow you to easily maintain and update a website.

What problems does AsciiDoc Website Builder solve?

You have a website. It doesn’t need to be a fancy-pants database-driven 
site: there’s no forums, no comments, no wiki, and it doesn’t need 
collaboration among unskilled contributors. In short, it’s for publishing, 
not interaction.

But when you go to build it, there are several problems.

You’ve decided that you want a common look to your whole site. You’re not 
really keen on keeping the header, navigation, footer, etc. consistent 
between the pages by hand. You’re thinking of using PHP, Ruby on Rails, 
ASP, or some other server-side technology to do that for you. 

Perhaps you don’t like any of the GUI HTML software. It makes a mess of 
your code, it’s slow and inefficient. But hand-coding the HTML is slow, 
prone to errors, and makes your document unreadable outside a browser. 

You’d like to have a simple blog, with a recent posts list and table of 
contents. Keeping those up to date is going to be really annoying. 

Maybe you’d like to post some photos on the ’net. But the repetitive grunt-
work of building pages for each and every image, along with a contents 
page, makes you want to bash your head against the wall. 

Maybe you already have your site’s content in AsciiDoc format. AsciiDoc 
will convert it to HTML, but how are you going to integrate it into a 
website? 

This is where AsciiDoc Website Builder really shines. It solves these 
problems by:

Using AsciiDoc as its document format. AsciiDoc is readily translated into 
HTML, and is very human-readable. 

Applying templates to each page of your site, for a consistent look. 

Generating a “breadcrumb trail” — your location in the site. 

Generating a blog index page, contents page, and timestamps for each post. 

Generating HTML files for a list of images. 

Generating a sitemap.xml file, to help Google and Yahoo index your site 
more easily. 

Using a smart, make-like build, so that only changed files are regenerated 
 
http://jared.henley.id.au/software/awb/documentation.html

Copyright © 2005-2008 Jared Henley This page is best viewed in a standards-
compliant web browser. This site was created using: gedit; the GIMP; and 
AsciiDoc Website Builder. If you would like me to create your website, 
send me a message. Last updated Monday, June 2, 2008'
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Cheers, Jared
Stephen Loosley
Victoria, Australia
 


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