Introduction
============

Pelican is a static site generator, written in Python.

This repository contains a pre-fabricated Pelican project and theme
you can use as a foundation on which to build your own static HTML
websites.

Pelican, together with Git and rsync, make it easy to compose, archive
and deploy static HTML websites.


Installing Pelican
==================

The easiest way to install Pelican is within a python virtual
environment.  You can create a virtual environment à la carte with
virtualenv, or manage several virtual environments under a single
directory with virtualenvwrapper::

    virtualenv cwi-pelican
    cd cwi-pelican
    . ./bin/activate

Once the virtual environment has been created and activated, use pip
to install Pelican and its dependencies::

    pip install pelican

If you plan on using Markdown as a markup format, you’ll need to install the Markdown library::

    pip install Markdown

Typographical enhancements can be enabled in your settings file, but
first the requisite Typogrify library must be installed::

    pip install typogrify

Installing Pelican project template
-----------------------------------

To kick start your website development we have created a
pre-fabricated Pelican theme and project template with example
content. While you can install the template anywhere you like, for
this example, please clone the cwi-pelican-template in the root of
your Pelican virtual environment. Don't forget to use your own
username in the url::

    git clone https://<username>@scm.cwi.nl/ITF/cwi-pelican-template cwi

Installing the Pelican CWI theme
--------------------------------

The cwi project template uses a corresponding CWI theme, but it must
be installed before Pelican can use it::

    pelican-themes --symlink ${PWD}/cwi/theme/cwi

Usage
=====

To generate html output, go to the project directory and invoke Pelican via make::

    cd cwi/projects/cwi
    make html

Previewing
----------

Pelican has its own built-in server. You can invoke it with make; or
you can regenerate the HTML and serve it in one command::

    make html serve

The server uses port 8000 by default. After starting the server point
you browser to the url: localhost:8000.


Customizing Configuration Settings
----------------------------------

Pelican has a plethora of setting; all configurable in file whose
default name is 'pelicanconf.py.' Please refer to [the settings
section](http://docs.getpelican.com/en/3.5.0/settings.html) in the
Pelican documentation.

Here is the contents of pelicanconf.py used in the cwi project
template. Observe that the 'THEME' setting is assigned the string
'cwi'::

    #!/usr/bin/env python
    # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- #
    from __future__ import unicode_literals

    AUTHOR = u'M.A. Guravage'
    SITENAME = u'CWI Pelican Template'
    SITEURL = ''

    PATH = 'content'

    TIMEZONE = 'Europe/Amsterdam'

    DEFAULT_LANG = u'en'

    # Feed generation is usually not desired when developing
    FEED_ALL_ATOM = None
    CATEGORY_FEED_ATOM = None
    TRANSLATION_FEED_ATOM = None
    AUTHOR_FEED_ATOM = None
    AUTHOR_FEED_RSS = None

    # Blogroll
    LINKS = (('Pelican', 'http://getpelican.com/'),
             ('Python.org', 'http://python.org/'),
             ('Jinja2', 'http://jinja.pocoo.org/'),)

    # Social widget
    SOCIAL = (('twitter', 'https://twitter.com/CWInl'),
              ('github', 'http://github.com'),)

    STATIC_PATHS = ['static', 'images', 'extras/.htaccess', 'extras/.htpassword']
    PAGE_PATHS = ['pages','news', 'private']
    ARTICLE_PATHS = ['blog']

    DEFAULT_PAGINATION = 10
    THEME = 'cwi'
    USE_FOLDER_AS_CATEGORY = True
    DISPLAY_CATEGORIES_ON_MENU = False
    DISPLAY_PAGES_ON_MENU = True
    LOAD_CONTENT_CACHE = False

    EXTRA_PATH_METADATA = {
        'extras/.htaccess': {'path': 'pages/.htaccess'},
        'extras/.htpassword': {'path': 'pages/.htpassword'}
        }

    # Uncomment following line if you want document-relative URLs when developing
    #RELATIVE_URLS = True

    # finis


Uploading the generated HTML to a server
----------------------------------------

The Pelican Makefile contains several targets for uploading its
generated HTML. List all make's targets with::

    make -n

To use rsync, edit the Makefile and customize the values of SSH_HOST,
SSH_USER and SSH_Target_DIR.


If CWI is hosting your site, SSH_HOST and SSH_TARGET_DIR name the host
and document root configured for you by ITF staff.


Archiving your site
-------------------

The url from which you cloned the cwi-pelican-template repository is
called the clone's 'origin.' To archive your clone you should change
its origin to point to a new repository and push it there. For
example, if I had created a new repository at scm.cwi.nl named
itf-pelican-site, I could push my site there with the following two
commands::

    git remote add origin https://guravage@scm.cwi.nl/ITF/itf-pelican-site
    git push -u origin master


Creating new Pelican projects
-----------------------------

Pelican provides a scrip, appropriately named 'pelican-quickstart', to
help create new project hierarchies.  To use it, go to the projects
directory and invoke 'pelican-quickstart' at the command prompt. The
script will solicit your answers to a number of questions, and
generate your new project hierarchy accordingly.


The CWI Template and Theme
==========================

The project content is a hierarchy of folders and files containing
your content, the CWI theme and the Pelican generated HTML.


Content hierarchy structure
---------------------------

The first and most important hierarchy is the one that holds the
content of your website. Here is where you add your content that
becomes pages on your static website.  Browse through the content
hierarchy to familiarize yourself with its structure and contents.

Folder names become Pelican categories, so folders named, 'blog',
'news', 'pages', 'private' and 'static' contain exactly what you
expect them to have. By default, files in the blog folder are
displayed on the index page. Files in the pages folder produce
corresponding tabs. The events.md file contains explicit links to
files in the news folder. The about.md file contains a link to a
static PDF file.

You can customize how Pelican will handle your content by editing the
configuration files: pelicanconf.py and publishconf.py::

    ├──  projects
    │   ├──  cwi
    │   │   ├──  pelicanconf.py
    │   │   ├──  publishconf.py
    │   │   ├──  develop_server.sh
    │   │   ├──  fabfile.py
    │   │   ├──  Makefile
    │   │   ├──  content
    │   │   │   ├──  blog
    │   │   │   │   └──  cwi.md
    │   │   │   ├──  extras
    │   │   │   │   ├──  .htaccess
    │   │   │   │   ├──  .htpassword
    │   │   │   ├──  images
    │   │   │   ├──  news
    │   │   │   │   ├──  energy_projects.md
    │   │   │   │   ├──  jos_baeten_uva.md
    │   │   │   │   └──  linda_hardman_acm.md
    │   │   │   ├──  pages
    │   │   │   │   ├──  about.md
    │   │   │   │   ├──  contact.md
    │   │   │   │   ├──  events.md
    │   │   │   │   └──  news.md
    │   │   │   ├──  private
    │   │   │   │   └──  private.md
    │   │   │   └──  static
    │   │   │       └──  annual-report.pdf

CWI Theme hierarchy
-------------------

You need not change anything here. But if the need arises, here is
where you will affect your changes to the theme::

    ├──  themes
        ├──  cwi
        │   ├──  static
        │   │   ├──  css
        │   │   │   ├──  main.css
        │   │   │   ├──  pygment.css
        │   │   │   ├──  reset.css
        │   │   │   ├──  typogrify.css
        │   │   │   └──  wide.css
        │   │   └──  images
        │   │       └──  icons
        │   │           ├──  aboutme.png
        │   │           ├──  bitbucket.png
        │   │           ├──  cwi.jpg
        │   │           ├──  delicious.png
        │   │           ├──  facebook.png
        │   │           ├──  github.png
        │   │           ├──  gitorious.png
        │   │           ├──  gittip.png
        │   │           ├──  google-groups.png
        │   │           ├──  google-plus.png
        │   │           ├──  hackernews.png
        │   │           ├──  lastfm.png
        │   │           ├──  linkedin.png
        │   │           ├──  reddit.png
        │   │           ├──  rss.png
        │   │           ├──  slideshare.png
        │   │           ├──  speakerdeck.png
        │   │           ├──  stackoverflow.png
        │   │           ├──  twitter.png
        │   │           ├──  vimeo.png
        │   │           └──  youtube.png
        │   └──  templates
        │       ├──  analytics.html
        │       ├──  archives.html
        │       ├──  article.html
        │       ├──  article_infos.html
        │       ├──  author.html
        │       ├──  authors.html
        │       ├──  base.html
        │       ├──  base.html~
        │       ├──  category.html
        │       ├──  comments.html
        │       ├──  disqus_script.html
        │       ├──  github.html
        │       ├──  index.html
        │       ├──  page.html
        │       ├──  period_archives.html
        │       ├──  piwik.html
        │       ├──  tag.html
        │       ├──  taglist.html
        │       ├──  tags.html
        │       ├──  translations.html
        │       └──  twitter.html

Output hierarchy structure
--------------------------

Here is the structure of the HTML Pelican generates::

    ├──  projects
    │   ├──  cwi
    │   │   ├──  output
    │   │   │   ├──  about.html
    │   │   │   ├──  archives.html
    │   │   │   ├──  author
    │   │   │   │   └──  moe-howard.html
    │   │   │   ├──  authors.html
    │   │   │   ├──  categories.html
    │   │   │   ├──  category
    │   │   │   │   └──  blog.html
    │   │   │   ├──  feeds
    │   │   │   │   ├──  all.atom.xml
    │   │   │   │   └──  blog.atom.xml
    │   │   │   ├──  index.html
    │   │   │   ├──  pages
    │   │   │   │   ├──  .htaccess
    │   │   │   │   ├──  .htpassword
    │   │   │   │   ├──  about.html
    │   │   │   │   ├──  contact.html
    │   │   │   │   ├──  energy_project.html
    │   │   │   │   ├──  events.html
    │   │   │   │   ├──  jos_baeten.html
    │   │   │   │   ├──  lynda_Hardman.html
    │   │   │   │   ├──  news.html
    │   │   │   │   └──  private.html
    │   │   │   ├──  static
    │   │   │   │   └──  annual-report.pdf
    │   │   │   ├──  tags.html
    │   │   │   └──  theme
    │   │   │       ├──  css
    │   │   │       │   ├──  main.css
    │   │   │       │   ├──  main.css~
    │   │   │       │   ├──  pygment.css
    │   │   │       │   ├──  reset.css
    │   │   │       │   ├──  typogrify.css
    │   │   │       │   └──  wide.css
    │   │   │       └──  images
    │   │   │           └──  icons
    │   │   │               ├──  aboutme.png
    │   │   │               ├──  bitbucket.png
    │   │   │               ├──  cwi.jpg
    │   │   │               ├──  cwi_orig.jpg
    │   │   │               ├──  delicious.png
    │   │   │               ├──  facebook.png
    │   │   │               ├──  github.png
    │   │   │               ├──  gitorious.png
    │   │   │               ├──  gittip.png
    │   │   │               ├──  google-groups.png
    │   │   │               ├──  google-plus.png
    │   │   │               ├──  hackernews.png
    │   │   │               ├──  lastfm.png
    │   │   │               ├──  linkedin.png
    │   │   │               ├──  reddit.png
    │   │   │               ├──  rss.png
    │   │   │               ├──  slideshare.png
    │   │   │               ├──  speakerdeck.png
    │   │   │               ├──  stackoverflow.png
    │   │   │               ├──  twitter.png
    │   │   │               ├──  vimeo.png
    │   │   │               └──  youtube.png

Pelican Documentation
=====================

You will find answers to all your Pelican questions in the Pelican
documentation. You will find the Pelican documentation at http://docs.getpelican.com/en/3.5.0/.