Gleeman

Gleeman is a toy static blog generator that aims to be a simple way to tell tales. The term "gleeman" is taken from Robert Jordan's epic fantasy series, The Wheel of Time. A gleeman is a traveling storyteller and entertainer.

Quick Start

Install

To get started, run gleeman init. This will instantiate your blog skeleton. The directory structure looks like this:

myblog/
    public/
        assets/
            main.css
    tales/
        entries/
            sample.md
        layout/
            _layout.html
        settings.yaml

Create a Blog Post

Create a new Markdown file in the tales/entries/ directory. The filename can be whatever you want, but we suggest using the slug of the title of your post. For example, a blog post titled "My 5 Favorite Dogs" might have a filename of my-five-favorite-dogs.md.

Write your blog post using Markdown.

Build the Blog Post

Once your Markdown file is created, simply run gleeman build and it will generate the HTML for the site.

Customizing your Blog

The two files used for customization are main.css for styling and _layout.html for the layout.

The main.css file is a minified theme that you can use. Feel free to customize it as much or as little as you want.

The _layouts.html file contains the header, footer, and body of the blog. You can customize this if you want.

Settings

The settings.yaml file contains only one required field at the moment, and that is name, which should be the name of your blog. By default, this is displayed in the <title> tags and at the top of your blog page.

Another option is base_url, if you want to define the location of this app. Normally, this is not needed, but if your files are being generated in the wrong place, setting this to the path of the gleeman executable this may resolve the issue.

Wish List

• Generate an index page with a preview of all of the blog posts
• Switch to use html/template in Go
• Create a webserver to serve up this stuff for development
• actually write blog posts