Use Cinch to make a simple Web site, like this one. It expects you to know what you are doing a little bit.
- DIY home page
- Simple page templating
- Use Markdown, HTML, or PHP
- Caching
- Page editor, “dashboard”
- Most stuff you might think of
A blog? No. Install WordPress? No thanks. You know how to use a text editor and upload files, but a simple page template and some caching would be nice. Most of the time Markdown is enough, but occasionally you need to do something simple in PHP or HTML. It's 2012, this should be easy.
Cinch does not auto-generate your home page; you provide your own index.html (or index.php).
Create a new page by creating a file in the content directory.
.txtfiles will be formatted by Markdown and Smartypants.htmlfiles will be unaltered.phpfiles will be included as PHP code
Use the basename of the file (e.g., "cinch" for "cinch.txt") to access your page.
If you have additions to the <head> element for a single page, put them in a sidecar file with a .head extension:
cinch.txt
cinch.head
- Grant PHP write access to the
cachedirectory. - Review
.htaccess. It may be necessary to make changes. - Load your home page and follow the links to the documentation.
- Syndication support, maybe
- Probably nothing
This is free software. It is released to the public domain without warranty.