Hyde is a static website generator powered by Python & Django. Hyde supports all the Django template tags & filters and even has a few of its own. The built-in web server + auto-generator provide instant refresh and unlimited flexibility.
Why Hyde
Dynamic content can be displayed using javascript
No database, no slowness, no digg-effect
Templates are dynamic, output is static
Use your text editor to edit your content
Efficient versioning using source control systems
Templating
Look & Feel
Structure
Services
Extensibility
The fantastic Django templates
Page Context Variables
Access to the entire site structure
Node Injection
Template Processing for CSS, JS and other files
Layouts:: Default, Simple
CSS Processors:SASS, HSS, CleverCSS, Less
Markdown, Textile and Typogrify built-in.
YUI Compressor
Excerpts
Breadcrumbs
Listing Pages with Excerpts
Atom Feeds
Categories with Feeds Per Category
Recent Posts
Cherry Py Web Server
Continuous Site Generation
Growl Notifications
Google Sitemap Generator
Apache Clean Urls
Backups
Full support for Django filters and template tags
Preprocessors setup the site
Content and Media processors generate the website
Postprocessors add the finishing touches
New Feature = New Processor. Simple.
Special Thanks
Tom Preston-Werner for Jekyll
Will Larson for aym-cms
Josh Rosen, Harry Lachenmeyer and Michael Biven for initial adoption and support.