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1 Why AsketicAligator

easy to install (unzip and fill in your informations like name of your site)
easy to use (write your pages in plain text and let it take care about the rest)
easy to deploy - any webhosting fits (it will just serve HTML+CSS files and your images - no databases, no languages, no frameworks needed)
extra fast on modern computers, usable on historic ones :)
easy to backup your pages/your site
simple template easy to modify

2 Intro

AsketicAligator is light-weight SSG based on make, python, docutils and Jinja 2 templates (do not worry, you do not need to understand this all)
- SSG stands for Static Site Generator - it generate everything on your local computer, so it can be then uploaded on server, where is no need for interpreters and databases
  
  that means, that the pages do not offer entry point for hackers
  
  also the pages can be downloaded and used localy
- light-weight means
  
  does not need database on your computer
  
  check and regenerate only what is really need to regenerate
  
  works good even on old, low power, slow computers
  
  is fast on modern computers
  
  have only basic functionality
  
  by being small it can be easily modified
  
  under 0.3 MB size with default theme :)
- also it keeps in mind modern multi-core computers and can use all cores to be extra fast :)
- while resulting pages are targeted at PC browsers, it should work everywhere
  
  just HTML+CSS - no flash, javascript or so
  
  no size restrictions, no empty placeholders
  
  all internal links relative (so just dowload it and it will work and look as well offline)
uses reStructuredText (.rst files) with some enhancements
- it is easy to write pages in RST
- it is readable even without reformating into HTML (or other formats)
- AsketicAligator also put source files on web, so you can look, how this pages was written
AsketicAligator come with few tools, which me be handy (check broken links, test pages, etc ...)
- (check broken links, test pages, etc ...)
AsketicAligator is under GPL license, so can be used for free (see GPU license)
- for the resulting website you can ofcourse choose any license