Jekyll

Jekyll

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Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Jekyll	Score 10.0 out of 10	N/A	Jekyll is an open source static site generator useful as a blog publishing system.	N/A

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Community Pulse
	Jekyll
Considered Both Products	Jekyll Verified User Engineer Chose Jekyll The big alternatives to Jekyll are of course things like WordPress or Drupal, but they are almost something completely different: a full-blown CMS with a backend language and a database. Jekyll loses some of the niceties of these CMS solutions, like easily updating content from … Incentivized Helpful? Kyle Taylor Senior Drupal Developer Chose Jekyll Jekyll has a much lower technical overhead in terms of server and hosting requirements to launch a site, but at the same time has a much more technical "interface" and doesn't have the dynamic capability, user management, or permission system as a standard CMS like Drupal or Wor… Incentivized Helpful? Nathan Arthur Programmer Chose Jekyll All the other CMS's I've used try to make it easy for the nontechnical user to manage a website, at the expense of adding complexity and weight to the system. Jekyll takes the exact opposite approach, eschewing all unnecessary complexity. If you know what you're doing in a code … Incentivized Helpful? Eric Mann Tekton Chose Jekyll Jekyll is integrated into GitHub Pages, which made it an easy choice. Using Jekyll was also easier as there's not really a server or a database to configure and you can just get things started from day one. Running and verifying content changes locally for developers is super … Incentivized Helpful?
Top Pros	Pro Ability to check Pro Support documentation Pro Entire site
Top Cons	Minus Set up Minus Server side Minus Annoying at times

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User Ratings
	Jekyll
Likelihood to Recommend	8.7 (4 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Jekyll
Likelihood to Recommend	Open Source Jekyll is great for people who aren't intimidated by editing HTML, CSS, and Markdown files, people who are on a shoestring budget, and people who want a blazing fast website. Jekyll may not be the best option for people who aren't interested in editing their websites in a text file and would rather have a WordPress-esque back-end from the beginning. Incentivized Nathan Arthur Programmer Read full review
Pros	Open Source Content stored in Git with the website code Free to use Easy to deploy to cheap/free hosting solutions Produces super fast static websites Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Open Source Complicated for non-technical users Can be difficult to enter in new content Implementing dynamic components can be challenging Incentivized Kyle Taylor Senior Drupal Developer Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Open Source Jekyll is integrated into GitHub Pages, which made it an easy choice. Using Jekyll was also easier as there's not really a server or a database to configure and you can just get things started from day one. Running and verifying content changes locally for developers is super efficient as Jekyll runs locally, too. Incentivized Eric Mann Tekton Read full review
Return on Investment	Open Source Jekyll has kept our costs low, very low, on all the projects I've used on it. Think $10 a year low. Incentivized Nathan Arthur Programmer Read full review
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