Ben Balter 10/30/2013

Jekyll: Where content is truly king

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The article details the development of GitHub's government site, explaining how choosing the Jekyll static site generator over traditional frameworks like WordPress or Rails eliminated technical distractions. This allowed the team to focus entirely on improving content quality and enabled an open-source editorial workflow using forks, pull requests, and issues, leading to contributions from nearly 100 people.

Jekyll: Where content is truly king

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