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      A slick and static website publisher       v 0.5

http://www.dyne.org/software/webnomad

INTRODUCTION

WebNomad is a set of shell scripts to generate websites and image galleries fit for desktop as well mobile and tablet browsing. It can be operated on any device running ZShell, its themes are based on Bootstrap CSS, pages can be written in Markdown syntax interlaced into HTML, while it uses JQuery and BlueImp to make slideshows using all files found into a directory.

USE INSTRUCTIONS

As of now, webnomad is operated from a Terminal. A simple interface might be built in future if donors request it.

BASIC USAGE

First create a directory for your website, then place the webnomad directory inside it, i.e. the one downloaded from the source archive or git repo.

From a terminal, cd inside your new website's directory and run:

./webnomad/init 

the skeleton of your new webpage is created inside the directory:

views/ -> contains the pages you want to edit
tmpl/ -> contains templates like header, footer and navbar

Now go customise files in tmpl/ with your favorite HTML editor and then go as well in views/ to create your web pages, better start from index.html.

To see results, run ./webnomad/render and your webpages will be in pub/ with all markdown rendered, header navbar and footer applied. To preview open the pub/index file with a web browser (chromium is recommended, since it does not need the .html extension on local files...)

Upload your website with a recursive Scp or Rsync from pub/* on any webserver.

USE MARKDOWN

To avoid the tedious task of using HTML tags for everything, even simple formatted text, webnomad supports interlacing markdown sections within an HTML page. This is simply done opening and closing the tags <markdown> ... </markdown> which can recur more than once in the same document.

This approach simplifies the use of markdown within a bootstrap styled page, where you can use the <div> classes of bootstrap as usual, directly in HTML, but then go on filling them up with our beloved simplified markup - cough cough - markdown.

IMAGE SLIDESHOW

To create an image slideshow simply create a page with file extension .gal or .gallery inside the views/ directory, for example one can call it views/vacation_in_Italy.gal

To add images into it one should create a -files directory inside views/ better if named after the gallery page, something like: views/vacation_in_Italy-files/

Proceed copying your images inside the -files directory, resized to the format you want them to appear in the slideshow. One can also use webnomad/convert an optional script that helps to do batch conversions.

Now fill in the filenames of your images inside the .gallery file, one per line, relative to the views/ path. For instance our views/vacation_in_Italy.gallery file can contain:

vacation_in_Italy-files/Fontana_di_Trevi.jpeg
vacation_in_Italy-files/Torre_di_Pisa.jpeg
vacation_in_Italy-files/Er_cupolone.jpeg
vacation_in_Italy-files/Spiaggia_con_bagnanti.jpeg
vacation_in_Italy-files/Io_e_te_sudati.jpeg

At last run webnomad/render and the slideshow will be ready at the page in pub/ which in our case is pub/vacation_in_Italy.

DIRECTORY INDEXES

Using webnomad One can also create static web pages indexing all files into any filesystem directories recursively, making thumbnail previews of images and linking to the originals.

In order to do so create a file in views with extension .idx or .index, then fill it in with the needed configurations, for instance a file my_pictures_folder.index can contain

THUMB_SIZE=128
LINK_PREFIX=archive
index /home/jaromil/pics

This will produce a pub/my_pictures_folder.html file which will list all files inside that directory with previews and further links to subfolders that are indexed the same way.

DEVELOPERS

Bleeding edge is on GitHub. see https://github.com/dyne/webnomad

Pull requests may be welcome.

Come on IRC channel #dyne via https://irc.dyne.org to get in touch.

DONATE

Money donations are very welcome and well needed

https://www.dyne.org/donate

LICENSE

WebNomad is Copyright (C) 2012-2014 Denis Roio jaromil@dyne.org

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License
as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of
the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
Affero General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public
License along with this program.  If not, see
http://www.gnu.org/licenses