A simple yet powerful and flexible static website and blog generator, based on doit, mako, docutils and bootstrap.

I built this to power this very site you are reading, but decided it may be useful to others. The main goals of Nikola are:

Small codebase: because I don't want to maintain a big thing for my blog
Fast page generation: Adding a post should not take more that 5 seconds to build.
Static output: Deployment using rsync is smooth.
Flexible page generation: you can decide where everything goes in the final site.
Powerful templates: Uses Mako
Clean markup for posts: Uses Docutils
Don't do stupid builds: Uses doit
Clean HTML output by default: Uses bootstrap
Comments out of the box: Uses Disqus
Tags, with their own RSS feeds
Easy way to do a blog
Static pages outside the blog
Multilingual blog support (my own blog is english + spanish)

I think this initial version achieves all of those goals, but of course, it can be improved. Feedback is very welcome!

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