

It doesn’t require advanced server with specific configuration because all files are. It doesn’t require database at all because all files are static.

Less stuff to care about, more time to do productive stuff. It’s a first choice of many of my favourite bloggers so I decided to give it a try. One of the most popular one is Jekyll created by Github’s authors. As we can see on this website selection of static site generators isn’t small neither (today is 389 of them). Idea of static site generators isn’t any new. All this tools are amazing but I wanted something even simpler and then I found a power of static sites generators. Shortly we can expect a new kid on the block. Node.js based Ghost, very popular Tumblr or Twitter’s founders Medium. After a quick research I found out that it is many tools that better suits my simple text based blog than Wordpress. Wordpress was a first thing that came to my mind when I decided to build my own blog.

It is fantastic tool, with easy to grasp backend and almost endless possibilities. In the company that I work for we build cool looking websites for clients that are not necessarily very familiar with technology behind it. On daily basis I work a lot with Wordpress.
