Feature list

• webgen core

  • Easily extendable through plugins
  • Easy to install and use
  • Easy to configure if one needs to (no need if you are happy with the default values)
  • Command line interface uses command style syntax (like Subversion’s svn command)
  • Fast

• File Handler (for handling the files in the source directory)

  • Powerful file copy handler for copying single files or entire directories to the output directory
  • Support for image galleries -> generates entire image galleries, with automatic thumbnail creation
  • ... and much more (see File)!

• Page Files (for defining web pages)

  • Support for ERB (embedded Ruby) in page files and in templates
  • Support for nested templates
  • Supports several different content formats (Textile, Markdown, RDOC, xml builder, plain HTML), new ones are easy to add
  • Support for specifying meta information (e.g. title, menu ordering information, ...)
  • ... also see File/PageHandler!

• Tags (used for easily adding dynamic content to web pages)

  • Standard distribution provides often used tags
  • Menu tag can generate different types of menus (simple menus and ones with CSS drop downs)
  • Breadcrumb trail tag generates a breadcrumb trail so that one always knows where he is in the hierarchy
  • Relocatable tag for automatically generating correct relative paths to files
  • ... and much more (see Tag)!

• Other Features

  • Automatically checks generated files if they are standard conform (see HtmlValidator)
  • Supports ‘virtual files/directories’ via meta information backing files
  • Support for automatic smiley replacement with emoticons( – see Misc/SmileyReplacer)