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<h4>This Page</h4>
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<li><a href="#lektor-is-static">Lektor is Static</a></li>
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<li><a href="#lektor-is-a-cms">Lektor is a CMS</a></li>
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<li><a href="#lektor-is-a-framework">Lektor is a Framework</a></li>
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<li><a href="#collaborate-and-synchronize">Collaborate and Synchronize</a></li>
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<h1>What is Lektor</h1>
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<p>When it comes to creating websites, there is a ludicrous number of tools available.
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They range from full-blown content management solutions like Drupal to
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desktop solutions like Google Web Designer to Cloud Hosted Website solutions
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like WIX to more programmer focused approaches like Jekyll which generate
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websites out of templates and markdown files.</p>
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<p><em>Lektor is different from any of these.</em></p>
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<h2 id="lektor-is-static">Lektor is Static</h2><p>Lektor learned from the huge range of static file generators like Jekyll,
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Pelican, Hugo, Middleman and many more about the value of generating a
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completely static website. This means that unlike WordPress or similar
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solutions it does not run on a server, but your local computer (or a build
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server), and generates static HTML that can be uploaded to any web server or
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content distribution platform like S3 with CloudFront.</p>
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<p>Why go static? Because the vast, vast majority of websites will be read many
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more times than they will be updated. This is crucial because dynamic content
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does not come for free. It needs server resources and because program code is
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running there it needs to be kept up to date for to ensure there are no security
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problems that are left unpatched. Also when a website gets a sudden spike of
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traffic a static website will stay up for longer on the same server than a
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dynamic one that needs to execute code.</p>
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<p>Sure, there are some things you cannot do on a static website, but those are not
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things you would use Lektor for. For small dynamic sections, JavaScript
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paired up with other services is a good solution.</p>
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<p><img src="static.png" alt="" class="screenshot"></p>
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<h2 id="lektor-is-a-cms">Lektor is a CMS</h2><p>Lektor takes from content management systems like WordPress and provides a
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flexible browser-based admin interface from which you can edit your website's
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contents. Unlike traditional CMS solutions, however, it runs entirely on your
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own computer.</p>
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<p>This means you can give a Lektor website to people that have no understanding
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of programming and they can still modify the content and update the website.</p>
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<p><img src="admin.png" alt="" class="screenshot"></p>
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<h2 id="lektor-is-a-framework">Lektor is a Framework</h2><p>Lastly, Lektor learns from experience in writing web frameworks. Lektor
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is much more than a website generator because it is based on a very flexible
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internal flat file database which can be used to model any website content.
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Unlike static blog generators which are based on some markdown content and
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“front matter” metadata Lektor's content is 100% configurable.</p>
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<p>If you have ever used a web framework like Django or Ruby on Rails you might
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feel right at home in how you can model and query your data.</p>
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<p><img src="templates.png" alt="" class="screenshot"></p>
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<h2 id="collaborate-and-synchronize">Collaborate and Synchronize</h2><p>Lektor acknowledges that there are web developers and content editors and that
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their interests and preferences are very different. This is reflected heavily
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in the design of Lektor and if you make your first Lektor project you can see
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why. A web developer would go in and setup the theme and structure of a
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Lektor project and content creators can then fill in the content of the site.</p>
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<p>The collaboration can be based on version control systems like git or just
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basic solutions like Dropbox. It's intentionally built so that collaboration
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can work via the most basic systems like Dropbox or just network shares.</p>
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<p>When you go live, you can synchronize up your changes into a remote server
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just as easily.</p>
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<p><img src="git.png" alt="" class="screenshot"></p>
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