Static site generator is a software that takes some text + templates as input and produces html files on the output. A picture:
┌──────┐ ┌───────────┐ ┌─────────────┐ ** │ text │ + │ templates │ = │ .html files │ └──────┘ └───────────┘ └─────────────┘
Generated site can be blog, game list, interactive demo or anything else.
Static site generators written in Python
PubTal - #SimpleTAL-based static web site generator
https://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/rest2web/ - Generates Websites from ReST contents
Blogofile - Mako-based static web site generator. Supports Git, Disqus, RSS feeds, plugins, and S3.
Pelican - Uses Markdown or ReST for content and Jinja 2 for themes. Supports DVCS, Disqus.
Sphinx - Turns ReST into HTML, LaTeX, man pages, or plaintext. Created to by Python's official documentation system and has many features for making site trees, inter-document linking, and other documentation necessities (Jinja2 as default template engine).
Tinkerer - blogging engine/static website generator powered by Sphinx.
Poole - Static website generator based on Markdown. html2text - useful tool for conversion into Markdown.
Mynt - Static website generator based on Markdown (Jinja2 as a template).
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** ASCII diagram was drawn with Far Manager