We have a new website

Our previous website was starting to be quite stale, with irregular updates and out-of-date technology. We formerly use DotNetNuke which gave us a lot of out the box, but was (we found) difficult to maintain. We were keen to build our site using the same approach we use for document preparation - markdown, pandoc and git. We find that this approach is more efficient, allows for better collaboration, and allows us to separate styling from content.

We looked at a few different website tools, including

• Jekyll
• Middleman
• Hakyll
• yst
• pretzel

None of them was exactly right for us, so we ended up developing our own software. At some point we will publish this, but in summary it takes a series of documents (written in markdown) and turns them into a website. The styling is done using the Foundation css framework, and templated using String Template.