Why Jekyll

December 02, 2014

I found there are a lot of options for starting a blog online. Wordpress and Ghost and a new one called Jekyll.

After doing some research I found that a static site generator like Jekyll offers some advantages over dynamic sites like Wordpress:

  1. Site operates faster (no trips to a database for info);

  2. Easy to deploy (no need to hook up a database); and

  3. Ownership and transportability of content (markdown files are simple and easy to create and share).

The most important consideration for me was the third point: I really liked the idea of being able to craft blog posts easily in markdown and maintaining total ownership of them. It seemed like the developer thing to do.


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