Why build a website with emacs and not with something else
I tried creating personal blog/website the following ways:
- First with php - gvazdikelis
- Then with hugo - arvydas.dev_hugo
- Finally with django - django_blog
- Emacs blog - example
- PKC wiki - example
- PKC afk - example
- Emacs and built in HTML exporting feature(export one page at a time)
C-c C-e - Emacs and built in org-publish-project, personal example
C-c C-e P p, good intro tutorial - Emacs and org-static-blog package, personal example
- Had my devnotes website 90% built(link to commit) with
org-static-blog, and then found out about ox-hugo from here. Tried to create a blog with it, example - Then found out about Emacs and hugo.. ox hugo and emacs-easy-hugo.
- Weblorg - have not tried it
- There is also lazyborg, for writing blogs. But it seems quite complex.
- Also you can export your org files to wordpress. Have not tried.
Creating personal website/blog with Emacs is the right way for me, because:
- I can use Emacs shortcuts to write and edit text
- I don’t need to reformat text to make it readable for something like CKEditor in python django I can just straight up use emacs source blocks, headings, text blocks and so on and everything just works,
- I can publish my blog just as easily wit Magit, push straight to Github and the changes will be visible live immediately.
For me, this is the fastest, most enjoyable, bulletproof, independent way to blog. I don't want to depend on Wordpress, packages installs/updates/pricing, having to deploy the site somewhere in certain file types.. now its simple html/css. Can be hosted anywhere/forever.
You can find some inspirational websites build with org mode here.