Features

• Generate static website from Markdown & F# Script files as content.
• Blog posts & single pages "article model" => metadata can be from file name, folder structure, or "encoded" file content
  • Title
  • Date
  • Abstract (=> separator in file) VS extracted first words used in listing => standalone abstract
  • URL from file name
  • Lang given by first level dir in sources
  • Type of article: blog post, page... => from second level dir in sources
  • Tags to classify articles
  • UniqueKey
• Configurable menu/navbar and localized strings through config.fsx file
• Layouts localized : 1 for blog post, 1 for single pages
  • Header with navbar
  • Footer
• Listing pages localized : blog home (limit nb of posts) + by tag, by date (archives) => through grouping functions on metadata
• Manage several language for a same site :
  • Switch from one lang to another if several articles with same UniqueKey exist
• Deploy to gh-pages branch automatically (or master if [username].github.io repository)
• 404 page
• Pretty code formatting based on FSharp.Formatting
• SEO:
  • avoid duplicate content, canonical url, nice URLs, meta title/description
  • Microformats : itemtype, itemscope, itemprop (http://www.alsacreations.com/article/lire/1509-microdata-microformats-schema-semantique.html)
  • Old content migration on the same domain with "redirectfrom" metadata (http-equiv="refresh", rel="canonical")
  • Blogspot migration guidelines: http://www.davidsottimano.com/cross-domain-canonicals-blogspot-blog/
• Google Analytics + cookies warning
• Comments integrated with Disqus (make it configurable)
• Global RSS feeds by language

Features TODO

• SEO:
  • Google Webmaster Tools guidelines
  • XML sitemap
• Links to share articles on Twitter or Linked In
• Links checker : detect links that does not return HTTP Code 200
• Tag specific RSS feeds
• Tag cloud canvas : http://www.goat1000.com/tagcanvas-shapes.php
• Author ? Displayed on posts + page by authors
• Custom theme: layout, content files (css, js, images)

Refactoring

• Put more code from build.fsx to tools dir
• Add Unit Tests
• Tags and archives are mostly the same : a listing layout and a grouping function
• Avoid overflow on code blocks (really awful in mobile view)