LibGuides: Minimal Computing : Technologies and Platforms

Building a Site

Jekyll
Jekyll is a simple, blog-aware, static site generator perfect for personal, project, or organization sites. Think of it like a file-based CMS, without all the complexity. Jekyll takes your content, renders Markdown and Liquid templates, and spits out a complete, static website ready to be served by Apache, Nginx or another web server. Jekyll is the engine behind GitHub Pages, which you can use to host sites right from your GitHub repositories.
Wax
Wax is a minimal computing project for producing digital exhibitions focused on longevity, low costs, and flexibility. Its underlying technology is made to learn and to teach, and can produce beautifully rendered, high-quality image collections and scholarly exhibits. To start using Wax, please see the documentation for installation instructions and more.
Ed.
Ed is a Jekyll theme designed for textual editors based on minimal computing principles, and focused on legibility, durability, ease and flexibility. Our underlying technology is easy to learn and teach, and can produce beautifully rendered scholarly or reading editions of texts meant to last.
HTML and CSS
You can always write your own code in HTML and CSS to develop sites, as well. Since you will need to hardcode the HTML for each page of your site, this will work best for relatively small sites without too many individual pages.

GitHub Pages
A free option for site hosting offered through GitHub. GitHub Pages allows for one site per GitHub account and organization, and unlimited project sites. Integrates with Jekyll, which has built-in support for GitHub Pages.