I used to be a happy jekyll user for a long time. But, bloggin using jekyll
is frustrating when you have to make a lot of minor edits. The commit → push
dance is too much while making small edits. Also, I don't know a straight way
of doing jekyll redirects and allowing the use of tags/categories.
Substance fixes those issues because it is dynamic I sometimes wonder what age
we are living in, when we (the tech bloggers) use a static site generator for
our blogs. Jekyll's main strength has been that it's very very flexible,
I've tried to build Substance to give the most flexibility to the users
without complicating things.
Substance (http://substancehq.com/) is a simple blogging engine / site builder without any fluff. I created it to replace Jekyll for myself. Hope others find it useful.
Also, it has ability to add custom data collections easily. If you want to build a simple site, this comes in very handy.
If you keep your Jekyll site on GitHub, you can edit your site in your browser with Prose. I imagine you use GitHub for its Jekyll building and mirror the built site elsewhere.
Yes, it is a hosted blogging engine. You can sign up and use it with a single click. Just enter a blog title on the home page form and hit the 'create blog' button, that's all.
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My annoyances with Jekyll from (http://substancehq.com/why-substance)
Substance (http://substancehq.com/) is a simple blogging engine / site builder without any fluff. I created it to replace Jekyll for myself. Hope others find it useful.Also, it has ability to add custom data collections easily. If you want to build a simple site, this comes in very handy.
I'm also a heavy Jekyll user. I work on a Jekyll addon, which will allow live site edits. Imagine static site generator executed on client-side:
https://github.com/darwin/terraform
The main trick is to use PhantomJS to pre-generate static site for initial serving.
Fantastic, that would be a dream come true. A Jekyll site that I could update even when I'm not at my own machine.
If you keep your Jekyll site on GitHub, you can edit your site in your browser with Prose. I imagine you use GitHub for its Jekyll building and mirror the built site elsewhere.
http://prose.io/about.html
It's a service? It doesn't really seem to be in the same category...
Yes, it is a hosted blogging engine. You can sign up and use it with a single click. Just enter a blog title on the home page form and hit the 'create blog' button, that's all.