Languishing homepage rescued by Python


Using Python to do a homepage

I find it pretty ironic given the amount of time I spend in front of a keyboard that I let my personal homepage go stale. On second thought, stale is a gross understatement. So, to that end I spent a little bit of time today revamping things using ht2html processor, a very nice Python package by Barry Warsaw. The fruits of this effort can be seen at my new and improved (and hopefully continuously updated) homepage .

If you are allergic to frames, then h2html might be the prescription. I found that this approach lets you do a little bit of HTML markup but wrapped up in a Python script (or two) to make the whole site hang together. This is much easier to generate and extend than my old approach which relied on LaTeX2html. The latter is pretty powerful, especially if you had done a paper or thesis or dissertation in LaTeX and wanted to crank out an HTML version. However, it was probably not the right tool for a homepage.

Posted: Sun - December 12, 2004 at 06:03 PM          

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