Name: Jekyll
Rating: 10 (9 reviews)
Author: Open Source

Customer Success Management Training

Help Desk

Web and Video Conferencing

Customer Support

Cross-Browser Testing

Functional Testing

Development

Admissions and Enrollment

Education

Business Intelligence (BI)

Business Process Management (BPM)

Collaboration

Enterprise Asset Management

Enterprise Content Management

Enterprise Search

Environmental Health and Safety (EHS)

Transportation & Logistics

Enterprise

Accounting

Cryptocurrency Wallets

Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

Financial Risk Management

Treasury Management

Finance and Accounting

Applicant Tracking

Corporate Learning Management

Employee Referral

HR Management

Payroll

Talent Intelligence

Talent Management

Workforce Analytics

Workforce Management

Human Resources

Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)

Cloud Storage

Complex Event Processing

Configuration Management

Data Warehouse

Fraud Detection

Function as a Service (FaaS)

Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS)

IoT Device Management

Mobile Identity

Network Behavior Analysis

Network Performance Monitoring

Remote Desktop

SaaS Backup

Storage as a Service (STaaS)

Unified Communications Monitoring

User Virtualization

Vendor Risk Management

Website Hosting

Information Technology

A/B Testing

Ad Serving & Retargeting

Affiliate

All-in-One Marketing

Contact Management

Content Management

Customer Advocacy

Customer Experience Management

Ecommerce Personalization

Email Marketing

Market Research

Marketing Automation

Product Intelligence

Social Media Management

Survey & Forms Building

Web Analytics

Marketing

Project Management

Professional Services

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

Field Sales Software

Government Contracting

Proposal

Sales Coaching

eCommerce Analytics

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Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms

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Awards Management

Internet of Medical Things

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ReviewsAndRatings

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Wordpress is an open-source publishing platform popular with bloggers, and a content management system, known for its simplicity and modifiability. Websites may host their own blogging communities, controlling and moderating content from a single dashboard.

WordPress

Platform & Infrastructure

Web Content Creation

Web Content Management

Role-based user permissions

WYSIWYG editor

Code quality / cleanliness

Admin section

Page templates

Library of website themes

Mobile optimization / responsive design

Publishing workflow

Form generator

Content taxonomy

SEO support

Bulk management

Availability / breadth of extensions

Community / comment management

Internationalization / multi-language

Automattic

is a social network owned by SUP Media where Internet users can keep a blog, journal or diary - a wide variety of political pundits also use the service for political commentary.

LiveJournal

Blogging

Ghost is a free blogging platform supported by a UK-based non-profit, the Ghost Foundation.

Ghost

Ghost Foundation

Medium is a blogging and web publishing platform from the company of the same name in San Francisco, California.

Medium

Medium.com

Blogger is a blog-publishing service that allows private or multi-user blogs with time-stamped entries. It was created by Pyra Labs, which was bought by Google in 2003. Generally, the blogs are hosted by Google at a subdomain of blogspot.com.

Blogger

Google

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Drupal is a free, open-source content management system written in PHP that competes primarily with Joomla and Plone. The standard release of Drupal, known as Drupal core, contains basic features such as account and menu management, RSS feeds, page layout customization, and system administration.

Drupal

Drupal.org

Movable Type is a Perl-based content management system from Six Apart, featuring the capability to host multiple weblogs and standalone content pages, manage files and user roles, templates, tags, categories, and trackback links.

Movable Type

Six Apart

Tumblr is a very easy to use microblogging platform and social networking website, owned and operated by Tumblr, Inc. The service allows users to post multimedia and other content to a short-form blog. Users can follow other users' blogs, as well as make their blogs private.

Tumblr

Squarespace is a CMS platform that allows users to create a DIY blog, eCommerce store, and/or portfolio (visual art or music). Some Squarespace website and shop templates are industry or use case-specific, such as menu builders for restaurant sites.

Squarespace

Jekyll is an open source static site generator useful as a blog publishing system.

Duda, the eponymous platform from the company in Palo Alto, is a web design platform for companies that offer web design services to small businesses. The company serves customers from freelance web professionals to digital agencies, all the way up to the large hosting companies, SaaS platforms and online publishers.

Basic

Team

Agency

Custom

Duda

Starter Plan

Core Plan

Premium Plan

Enterprise Plan

Prezly

Public Relations (PR)

Jekyll

Blogging platforms are a subset of content management systems and are designed to simplify creating and maintaining weblogs.

Likelihood to Recommend

Open Source

Reviews

TrustRadius is a technology and business research firm based in Austin, Texas. The company is known as a review platform for verified B2B technology and software reviews through a proprietary algorithm and human verification.

TrustRadius

Set up

Server side

Annoying at times

3rd party

Non technical

3rd party software

Technical users

Non technical users

Edge cases

Easy to update

Ability to check

Support documentation

Entire site

Free to use

Version control

Single page

Easy to deploy

Backed up

Multi page

Super fast

Home

Blogging Platforms

At my organization, we currently use Jekyll on my team as an easy way to publish our style guide and pattern library. The Jekyll site gets deployed automatically through GitHub pages. I use Jekyll personally for a portfolio website, also deployed through GitHub Pages. I also have used Netlify for publishing Jekyll sites in the past.

Product Usage

Pros and Cons

Content stored in Git with the website code
Free to use
Easy to deploy to cheap/free hosting solutions
Produces super fast static websites

Things done well

Not easy to update for non-developers
No server-side language to support things like contact forms, so 3rd party software/service is needed
Ruby gems can get messy

Things done poorly

Jekyll is well suited for users who would like to have all content within source control (Git) along with the code used to produce the website. Because everything it produces is static assets (HTML, CSS, etc.), sites created with Jekyll are super fast, with very little needed on the server side of things. There are also a few really great free solutions for deploying and serving Jekyll websites.

Jekyll will be tough to maintain for users who are not web developers, comfortable using Git to update content. There are 3rd party solutions for maintaining Jekyll-based sites without having to touch the code, but this will cost extra money. Also, because there is no server-side language, you will need to look elsewhere to handle things like contact forms.

It's free with GitHub Pages, so it cost us nothing to use
It's tied into GitHub, so deploying changes is super easy (as opposed to deploying elsewhere)
Keeps all content together with the code, so only one place to maintain information

Return on Investment

The big alternatives to Jekyll are of course things like WordPress or Drupal, but they are almost something completely different: a full-blown CMS with a backend language and a database. Jekyll loses some of the niceties of these CMS solutions, like easily updating content from a user interface, but Jekyll will have much better performance by not having to render pages server-side or get content from a database.

I've also looked into (but not tried) several other Jekyll alternatives, such as Hugo, Middleman, and Pelican. Ultimately I decided on Jekyll because of it's ease of use with GitHub.

Alternatives

Other Software Used

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Google Analytics

Bitbucket

GitHub

We use Jekyll as a basic content management system framework for building basic, static, (and mostly freely hosted) websites. Generally the websites are either small prototypes, landing pages for new products or something new we're launching, or even as a basic blogging platform for one of our community driven technology sites. Jekyll helps you get up and running very quickly with a bare bones blog enabled site.

Lightweight blogging framework
Lots of support documentation
Can host practically anywhere

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Jekyll

Overview

What is Jekyll?

Jekyll is a great, fast alternative to a traditional CMS for developers

Simple yet powerful CMS with Jekyll

Jekyll is the Samurai sword of content management systems

Efficient Static Site Generation

Pricing

Jekyll

What is Jekyll?

Entry-level set up fee?

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Alternatives Pricing

Duda

What is Duda?

Prezly

What is Prezly?

Product Details

What is Jekyll?

Jekyll Technical Details

Comparisons

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WordPress

LiveJournal

Ghost

Medium

Blogger

Drupal

Movable Type

Tumblr

Squarespace

Reviews and Ratings

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