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I like the static site idea (I used it for years for my personal site), but I also like having a web front end for editing. I can't find a static site generator with a dynamic admin/posting end. Anyone seen one?

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For many use-cases, http://prose.io works well.

You can then use TravisCI (or the like) to trigger the site rebuild and deployment.

Ah yes I saw prose before and it looked promising. A bit techie for most, but it's fine for me. I had wondered about build and deploy - thanks for the pointer to TravisCI.

I started a working on a little node-webkit app with a markdown editor and some node.js static site generator embedded, giving a nice UI for editing and generating the site. I never got it working well enough to use, let alone share, but I hope somebody else does it someday.

Yeah it's a really hard problem (content editing in the browser). I am working on something like this now (for HTML content, not markdown specifically) and all I can say is it's prickly. The browser's content editing APIs are terrible so you have to do most everything yourself. But then there are some things that are very difficult to emulate, like selections. Still I think it's worth doing because I am tired of hand-coding my HTML pages all the time, and I think someone who can figure this might make a few dollars.

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