While Jekyll is cool to run a blog, it could be a PITA if you want to run a marketing site or something less blog-like with it. This made me to create Punch (http://laktek.github.com/punch), which can be easily customized to run many different kinds of sites.
If you already have a blog based on Jekyll, but feels it takes forever to build. Consider switching it to Punch with this boilerplate (https://github.com/laktek/punch-blog). Basically, you only need to move the files from Jekyll's `_posts` directory to Punch's `posts` directory. Also, you would love the ease in template customizations (and ability to use partial layouts).
My preferred tool for marketing websites is http://middlemanapp.com/ . On top of handling the markdown, erb -> html generation it also takes care of minifying of js and css, handles sass, less and setting image sizes automatically. It's not my project but I really love it :)
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While Jekyll is cool to run a blog, it could be a PITA if you want to run a marketing site or something less blog-like with it. This made me to create Punch (http://laktek.github.com/punch), which can be easily customized to run many different kinds of sites.
If you already have a blog based on Jekyll, but feels it takes forever to build. Consider switching it to Punch with this boilerplate (https://github.com/laktek/punch-blog). Basically, you only need to move the files from Jekyll's `_posts` directory to Punch's `posts` directory. Also, you would love the ease in template customizations (and ability to use partial layouts).
My preferred tool for marketing websites is http://middlemanapp.com/ . On top of handling the markdown, erb -> html generation it also takes care of minifying of js and css, handles sass, less and setting image sizes automatically. It's not my project but I really love it :)
Haha, nice shameless self-promotion. It's chill.
Jekyll's meant to be a static blog generator, not a general static site generator.