I am a Python programmer yet Jekyll is still my preferred static blog generator. I strongly considered Pelican but did not like all the magic it came with. Pelican would consolidate all my blog posts to the same location and had various (configurable) directory conventions that I would've to follow.
I needed just a simple compiler which converts markdown to html while retaining the structure of the site. Ideally, what need not be processed should be left as is. This gives developers like me a lot of flexibility to design a site.
Jekyll has not been updated for a long time but it still serves my needs quite well. I hope future releases would support minification and preprocessors like Coffeescript.
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I am a Python programmer yet Jekyll is still my preferred static blog generator. I strongly considered Pelican but did not like all the magic it came with. Pelican would consolidate all my blog posts to the same location and had various (configurable) directory conventions that I would've to follow.
I needed just a simple compiler which converts markdown to html while retaining the structure of the site. Ideally, what need not be processed should be left as is. This gives developers like me a lot of flexibility to design a site.
Jekyll has not been updated for a long time but it still serves my needs quite well. I hope future releases would support minification and preprocessors like Coffeescript.
You can add support for preprocessors like CoffeeScript to Jekyll fairly easily via a plugin. I created Jekyll Asset Pipeline for this purpose. http://www.matthodan.com/2012/11/22/jekyll-asset-pipeline.ht...
Check out Octopress. It might be right up your alley (and solve your problems).
http://octopress.org/