Bygga is a tool for building and updating small to medium sized web sites, such as:
- A presentation of yourself or your company
- A personal blog
- A slideshow or image gallery
Features of Bygga:
- Template system lets layout and style be easily reused on many different pages.
- Changing the template automatically updates all pages.
- Full access to raw HTML when needed.
- Markdown can be used for simple page editing
- Completed pages can be uploaded to the web server directly from within Bygga.
How is Bygga different from:
iWeb
- No full WYSIWYG editing interface.
- Aimed at more advanced users.
- Hand crafted rather than generated pages.
- Full control over page content.
- Not restricted to predefined templates.
BBEdit, TextMate, Smultron
- Powerful macro system – easy to reuse page design and text snippets.
- Change design of all pages by modifying template.
- Use Markdown for easier page creation.
- Once design is created, pages can be added by novices.
- Builtin HTML preview with clickable links.
- Built in FTP upload.
- No syntax highlighting (yet).
- Limited range of text editing commands.
PHP + MySQL
- No complicated server setup necessary.
- No custom PHP programming necessary.
- Preview/test locally before deploying to server.
- Easy to backup pages.
- Easy to move pages to a different server.
- Not locked into initial data model / page design.
- Pages are built statically, not dynamically.
- Desktop editing GUI.
- Single user editing only
Wiki or Blog server
- No complicated server setup necessary.
- Preview/test locally before deploying to server.
- Easy to backup pages.
- Easy to move pages to a different server.
- Fully customizable page design
- Desktop editing GUI
- Single user editing only
Learn more about Bygga
Bygga is $10 shareware. There are no time limits or nag screens in Bygga because I do not believe in those things. Prove me right by registering your copy:
