Webby - simple websites made simple

My dad asked me to help him do a website, so I started looking at the options, I definitely do not want to maintain this at all I thought.

He said: I just want an info page. 

And I though about Ana Nelson and her recent talk in Ruby Ireland about how to regenerate documentation[update: jsut been to her site and she moved her blog to webby :D], so 15 min ago I was trying webby, and its great, its a framework that does exactly what a framework should do: save you time but does things properly.

From my 15 min experience I can see that Its super easy to use, It generates a web structure quickly,  it’s template based and does loads of smart things for example: 

• In the css you can define “variables” with, for example, colours ( always thought this was necessary but also I think variables shouldn’t be implemented in the css definition)

• you can output to other formats ( in my case pdf output is really handy )

• goodness. Because Webby is a wrapper around rake, you can simply deploy to a site server 

I ll see what else I can use, but I really like it because it allows me to do something I’m happy with very quickly and that means that I’m actually waiting for my dad to send me the pictures and remaining content so i can deploy this site :p.

Also it gives me room to add some eye candy, I was reading this related post and really liked it too.