Overall Satisfaction with Jekyll
We use Jekyll as a basic content management system framework for building basic, static, (and mostly freely hosted) websites. Generally the websites are either small prototypes, landing pages for new products or something new we're launching, or even as a basic blogging platform for one of our community driven technology sites. Jekyll helps you get up and running very quickly with a bare bones blog enabled site.
- Lightweight blogging framework
- Lots of support documentation
- Can host practically anywhere
- Complicated for non-technical users
- Can be difficult to enter in new content
- Implementing dynamic components can be challenging
- Jekyll has improved our time to market in cases of new projects
- Jekyll has reduced the cost of hosting a website
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 WordPress already has baked in.