On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 10:14 PM, Ryan Mulligan <r...@ryantm.com> wrote:
> I've been thinking that what Staticmatic needs to drive it's popularity is
> to be a turnkey blogging platform out of the box (or in as few steps as
> possible.) I'm all in favor of using free services that people have already
> made so here's my plan:

> -Posts

> Staticmatic already has good support for posts, because posts are just
> websites. To make posts you just write content and have it rendered by
> Staticmatic. Easy enough.

> -Comments

> A good embeddable comment site is Disqus (www.disqus.com), it does nearly
> everything I could want in a comment engine.

> -RSS (the hard part)

> I haven't found a good service for building RSS feeds from a website yet.
> If anyone knows a good service I'd like to use it to save work. My plan
> right now is to integrate RSS generating functionality directly into
> Staticmatic.

> To make a directory have RSS support, you would put an atom.xml.haml file
> in the directory you want to enable support for. Then inside that file there
> would be ruby expressions that 1. build a list of files and publication
> dates and 2. takes this list and outputs an RSS feed in Atom format. If the
> publication date is left out, we'd use the file modification time.

> This RSS code would also include some code for generating an archives page.

> I'd want to make this as easy as possible to use, so that might involve
> some custom rake tasks for writing new posts. Any suggestions about how to
> make this simpler would be welcome.

> Also, please let me know if you think there are some fundamentals to blogs
> that I haven't addressed.

> Ryan Mulligan