I had the same problem (updating content), so I wrote a small script to download deltas from my Dropbox and parse them. Now I can edit my posts with vim:
That's a nice solution, though I've gone for a markdown admin widget instead.
This one if I remember correctly: https://github.com/timmyomahony/django-pagedown
Oooh, very nice, thanks for that!
One unintended (and great) side-effect of a Dropbox-hosted site is that you get mirrors for free (they all update together).
Wait till your web site gets a ton of unexpected traffic.
Having a dynamic "admin panel" does not mean you can't completely cache your user-facing pages.
Re:Using Django for mostly static sites
by oneeyedpigeon on Monday February 17, 2014 @01:06PM
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And having HTML files on the filesystem doesn't mean you can't have an admin panel to update them with.
Do you have a Django plugin you'd like to suggest that does this?
Maybe something like Prose.io (Jekyll based). It gives you a very rudimentary interface to edit your posts for a static site.
What'll happen then? My Django-based blog handled hundreds of thousands of visits in a day without breaking a sweat. What it does is basically "fetch the whole page from memcached and serve it".
Simply put, a web interface is often more convenient so I can update things easier on the go, and it's good to have a place to host experiments too.
I have used various static site generators but none of them seemed to be significantly less work to get going than a small django app on heroku. Though I've been using Django for a few years, so there is simply no learning curve left.