Re: Publishing my personal website with Org-mode

[Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@googlemail.com>]

Matthew Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org> writes:

> flaviostz@gmail.com (Flávio de Souza) writes:
>
>> Hi everybody!
>>
>> I'm new emacs and org-mode user. I've posted to this group sometimes and
>> I got helpful hints. Now I need your help ( opinion ) about
>> publishing html with org-mode.
>>
>> I decided to use emacs to make my personal website. Basically,
>> I want to write essays, tutorials and my cv and put in internet. I also
>> want to do a blog. 
>>
>> I am using org-mode to keep tracking of all my projects and it is working
>> really nice, therefore I'd like to try org-mode to make my web site.
>>
>> I would like to know some web sites that are using org-mode. Can you point 
>> some of them? 
>
> Hi Flavio,
>
> I just began a website with org-publish for many of the same reasons
> you mention:
>
> http://faculty.valpo.edu/mlundin/

Nice.

Is your table of contents simply standard org fair with some special
css?

Here's my little offering : http://richardriley.net/

>
> For blogs there is the discontinued blorg.el, which uses its own
> export mechanism (i.e., not org-export):
>
> - http://lumiere.ens.fr/~guerry/blorg.php
> - http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Blorg
>
> There's also org-blog (a bit out of date now), though I haven't been
> able to get it to work with more recent versions of org-publish.
> Perhaps someone else who's had more luck will offer their opinion
> here.

Carsten implemented selective tag based export. I see no reason why that
can't be used for "blog" publishing to ones own web albeit a tad heavy
on bandwidth since it will republish entire pages.