Bake your web site with JBake

Building a static web site from just plain old text files...

... an alternative to frying a web site using a database.

• Performance
• Platform independence
• Content can be version controlled
• More importantly...
• ...help improve the life span of content URLs!

• Open source
• Java (JVM goodness!)
• Content structure freedom
• Supported content formats...
• Raw HTML
• Markdown
• ...more to come!

• Flexible and configurable
• Template scripting support
• Blog aware
• Draft publishing support
• Use any front end framework...
• Bootstrap
• Foundation

What the oven looks like...

Site/Project layout

	
	├── assets
	│   ├── css
	│   ├── img
	│   └── js
	├── content
	│   ├── changelog.md
	│   ├── news
	│   │   ├── index.md
	│   │   └── jbake-v2-1-released.md
	│   └── sites.md
	├── templates
	│   ├── index.ftl
	│   ├── page.ftl
	│   └── post.ftl
	└── custom.properties
	

Content file

title=Changelog
date=2013-03-30
type=page
status=published
~~~~~~

### v2.1

*2013-04-30*

* Added unit tests
* Added post baking stats
* Command line arguments are now optional
...