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