A '''static site generator''' is a program that takes content, webpage design
templates and configuration files and based on them generates a directory tree
of [HTML] and other files that represent a website. 
The resulting website is static in the sense that it does not contain [CGI] 
or other server-side scripts and could as well be distributed as a [ZIP] file 
with no HTTP server at all. 
The content that a static site generator processes into HTML is usually 
marked up with a lightweight [markup language] like [Markdown].

One popular modern example of a static site generator would be
[http://jekyllrb.com/%|%Jekyll]. It is written in [Ruby].

**Known static site generators written in Tcl**

| '''Name''' | '''License and availability''' |
| [MajaMaja] | Free for non-commercial use |
| [Orb Spinner] | Commercial, no longer downloadable |
| [tclog] | Open-source (3-clause BSD license) |
| [Tclssg] | Open-source (MIT license) |

**Discussion**

[dbohdan] 2014-06-16: I'm working to replace an ad hoc shell script static
site generator with Tcl code. Are there any others written in Tcl?

[JM] see: http://www.scarpaz.com/MajaMaja/index.html

[escargo] 2014-06-20: Once upon a time, there was [Orb Spinner]. 
Its domain has lapsed and been acquired by somebody else.

The Internet Archive has a captured version from late 2006: https://web.archive.org/web/20061205031222/http://orbspinner.com/

I also use a Ruby site generator called webgen: http://webgen.gettalong.org/

[dbohdan] 2014-06-26: I've packaged mine as an open source project: [Tclssg]. It already has about all the functionality I wanted it to have but the documentation is not quite there yet.

[dbohdan] 2014-07-16: The documentation has rather improved since.

[dbohdan] 2014-07-19: Added [tclog] and restructured this page. Tclog has had a Tcler's Wiki article since forever (2003) but  dates from before the term "static site generator" was in common use.

**See also**

        * [HTML generator]
        * [Template and Macro processing]
        * [CMS]
        * A list of [http://staticsitegenerators.net/%|%static site generators]

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