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Ask HN: Art Blog Static Site Generator That Exists?
2 points by kradeelav on June 17, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments
I'm an artist and webmaster of a html/css based site with two separate "logs". These logs are currently on wordpress, but are non-dynamic blogs that could be effectively turned into static sites/flat file blogs; in fact, I'd really like the change given wordpress being bloated.

And yet, somehow. Despite searching high and low around the gazilions of "flat file CMSs" and "Static Site Generators", I have not found a single one that remotely caters to artists/illustrators who might want to simply post their art on an open-source, local, and truly free site with a RSS feed. No title, optional date label, nothing else around. "Image-centric" rather than text-centric if you will.

Command-line SSG's like Jekyll are right out; I'm a professional designer, not a professional coder. I want to click two buttons to upload an image (on my site). Publii with their GUI and .deb package was much closer but bug-ridden as of now (I will retry in the future). Grav's installation was way beyond me. etc.

On the flip side, if anyone wants a hobby project with tons of potential users, consider this a free idea. :)




Indexhibit is/was the OG "artist's website" CMS, not quite sure if it fits your bill, but might?

https://www.indexhibit.org/


Oh hey, this is amazing! Looks like the peak of its popularity was before my time but thank you a bunch for linking - may actually end up using it.


hey, what kind of site do you want it to look like?


Good question - what you see on (https://log.kradeelav.com/) is basically as close as I can get. Menu with custom css at top (or left side, honestly, no hamburger menu though), big images, optional text, and then permalink with tags. Pretty simple stuff.




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