In goes content, out comes a website, ready to deploy.
Static websites are safer, use fewer resources, and avoid vendor and platform lock-in. You can read more about this in the Nikola Handbook.
It has many features, but here are some of the nicer ones:
Blogs, with tags, feeds, archives, comments, etc. <some-sites-using-nikola.html>_Themable <theming.html>_- Fast builds, thanks to
doit <http://python-doit.sf.net>_ - Flexible, extensible via plugins
- Small codebase (programmers can understand all of Nikola core in a day)
reStructuredText <quickstart.html>_ [Cheatsheet <http://ubuntuone.com/1M7C5fdbLkggF7ptoUvTq8>_] or Markdown as input language (also Wiki, BBCode, Textile, and HTML)- Easy
image galleries </galleries/demo/>_ (just drop files in a folder!) - Syntax highlighting for almost any programming language or markup
- Multilingual sites,
translated to 11 languages <https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/nikola/>_. - Doesn't reinvent wheels, leverages existing tools.
- Python 2 and 3 compatible.
For more information, see http://nikola.ralsina.com.ar