Volt 0.0.3 documentation

Welcome to Volt

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Welcome to Volt

Volt is a general-purpose static website generator written in Python. It is:

Can’t wait to try? Install Volt now and see a live demo on your computer right away:

$ pip install volt
$ mkdir volt-demo; cd volt-demo
$ volt demo

Why Static Websites?

  1. Ease of deployment

    Static websites are essentially flat HTML files in a folder, no database required. This makes deployment as easy as copy-pasting files. Any modern web server will be able to serve static websites without requiring complex configuration.

  2. Speed

  3. Security

  4. Simple backup and versioning

Contributing

Fork the latest development version from Github and bootstrap the development environment (git and pip are required):

$ git clone https://github.com/bow/volt.git
$ cd volt
$ make dev

Report any bugs, feature request, or critiques to the main issue tracker. Or go straight to submitting your pull requests.

Volt Documentation

Additional Information

Indices and tables

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