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printer / text mode version
mksite.sh

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- still tiny
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- accessibility
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(C) 2004-10-11 <guidod>
 Guido Draheim

Website Look And Feel Generator


Pro
  • It requires only sh/sed posix shell tools to build doc pages.
  • It can build a common navigation bar and a sitemap for all webpages.
  • The program is a single short script file freely copyable & modifiable.

Con
  • All embedded meta-information must fit on a single line each.
  • There is only little more functionality than variable substititions.
  • The doc processing is slow - and even slower without gnu sed.

Neutral
  • A sitefile must be written - the sitemap is not truly autodetected.
  • The speedier twin perl script provides the exact same functionality.
  • Best for small webpages but gets too slow for hundreds of webpages.
  • The fancy results stem from the sitefile logic - see our examples .

Plus
  • Automatic "printerstyle" page generation helping text-mode browsers.
  • That style helps also for web accessibility of challenged people.
  • Ships with fancy tabbed style navigation as shown on these webpages.
  • Shortpage special style to print source code on full screen width.
  • It can adapt hrefs to navigate web content pages in subdirectories.