Its been one week that I have been working on "Hulk". I have made some what workable prototype. Now the ground is almost set. I have figured out the features that I am going to add but am still confused about it. I am not sure what shape this project will take.
Hulk Project will be (God willingly) a Static Stite Generator which should appeal to both technical and non technical users alike. On one hand it should work with no configuration out of the box and on ther other hand it should lend its self to a lot of customization.
I believe that making static website should not be considered a difficult skill anymore. Any one who is capable of making a word document should be able to create and host a static site free of cost. Hulk Project aims to make static site creation a breeze
I also believe that all the css and javascript that we need for 99.99% of our needs has already been written. There is no need for adding more to that pool, what we need is a way to benefit from what already exists. To this end Hulk project will stitch together great pieces of software / styles / css / parser etc rather than re-inventing the wheel.
Extending the frame work using plug-ins may be added in future but for now there is no such plan. I want hulk to do few simple tasks in the easies way possible.
Automatic indexing is going to be a big part of Hulk. I will like Hulk to automatically generate index files for the root folder as well as for each folder inside the root folder. For these index files initially I will use the name of the file but later on will add support for pulling out meta data from the file itself.
I will definitely like to add support for short code and tags etc. Since using these features we can generate even more automatic arrangements of our test / data.
This is what I have in mind so far. I do not want to build this project up more than it is but I intend to work on this for a very long time since I always wanted a tool like this for myself.
Bilal Tariq Follow me on Twitter @rusthulk