I don't like using graphical front end tools for my web pages. I feel they are an insult to whatever little intellect I have. I also hate typing in HTML tags when I'm writing. It tends to distract you from what you have in mind.
So I came up with a simple solution. I wrote a set of scripts that generate HTML. I simply write the contents in a simple text file. With some simple markups. The scripts run on the file and generate the necessary HTML which is checked up by "tidy".
I felt that these scripts deserved a section on the site. The scripts here are specifically customised for me. You can download these scripts and modify them for your personal use.These scripts have to be used ONLY UNDER THE GNU GPL License.
Here is an explanation for all the scripts. The main shell script first generates the header. Once the header is generated the text file is streamed through sed. Which generates most of the HTML. Then a perl script is run over the newloy generated file thus getting us the two menus. The main purpose of the AWK script is for generating the glossary listing, apart from that this site has a whats new page which is also generated by an Awk script. The makepage.pl script is used to create the side menu bars. The second perl script code.pl is used to format code in the document with proper indentation.
I have done a major revamp of the scripts on the website. As of now all HTML for new pages will be generated from a lisp script. Currently only the formatting of code sections is handled by a perl script. The reason for this change was mainly due to the fact that I had to learn lisp. But along the way I learnt quite a bit more. Will share these experiences as I go along. Currently the lisp script is not very nice...but I will keep on tuning it as I go ahead.