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PSKOV - Opensource Game Studio static site generator
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<strong id="title">PSKOV</strong>
<a href="index.html">Tool</a>
<a href="education.html">Education</a>
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Education: 03. Site
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<th>< Back</th>
<th>Index</th>
<th>Next ></th>
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<td><a href="education.02.deps.html">02. Dependencies</a></td>
<td><a href="education.html">Education</a></td>
<td><a href="education.04.lang.html">04. Language</a></td>
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<p>In this document we create a simple static web site with two pages.</p>
<p>Estimated completion time: ? minutes.</p>
<p><strong>Table of contents</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="#inspiration">01. Inspiration</a></li>
<li><a href="#cfg">02. Investigate <code>cfg</code> file</a></li>
<li><a href="#item">03. Investigate <code>item.template</code> file</a></li>
<li><a href="#md">04. Investigate <code>index.md</code> and <code>cv.md</code> files</a></li>
<li><a href="#lfsa">05. Launch LFSA</a></li>
<li><a href="#gen">06. Generate the site</a></li>
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<p><a name="inspiration"/></p>
<h2 id="01inspiration">01. Inspiration</h2>
<p>Suppose you are a great Russian painter named Valentin Serov. Everytime anyone wants to know about you they refer to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentin_Serov">Wikipedia</a>. You wake up earlier today with a distinct desire to have your very own personal web site.</p>
<p>You set on to create the following pages:</p>
<ul>
<li>About me</li>
<li>Curriculum vitae (CV)</li>
</ul>
<p>Some time later you have the following files in your <a href="https://github.com/OGStudio/site-pskov-sample/tree/master/01.TwoPages">site directory</a>:</p>
<ul>
<li>cfg</li>
<li>item.template</li>
<li>index.md</li>
<li>cv.md</li>
</ul>
<p>Let's look at their contents closer.</p>
<p><a name="cfg"/></p>
<h2 id="02investigatecfgfile">02. Investigate <code>cfg</code> file</h2>
<p><code>cfg</code> file has the following contents:</p>
<pre><code>input = .
item = item.template
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<p><code>cfg</code> is an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INI_file">INI file</a> with the following keys specified:</p>
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<th>Key</th>
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<td><code>input</code></td>
<td>Points to a directory where <code>item</code>'s file is located</td>
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<td><code>item</code></td>
<td>Points to an HTML template file that will be used to generate HTML files out of Markdown ones</td>
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<p>In our case, <code>item.template</code> file is located alongside <code>cfg</code>, so we use <code>.</code> to denote current directory.</p>
<p><a name="item"/></p>
<h2 id="03investigateitemtemplatefile">03. Investigate <code>item.template</code> file</h2>
<p><code>item.template</code> file has the following contents:</p>
<pre><code><!DOCTYPE html>
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<meta charset="utf-8">
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<style>
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<title>Serov</title>
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<strong>Serov</strong>
<a href="index.html">About me</a>
<a href="cv.html">CV</a>
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<h1>PSKOV_ITEM_TITLE</h1>
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PSKOV_ITEM_CONTENTS
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<p><strong>Note</strong>: style was collapsed for brevity.</p>
<p>As you can see, <code>item.template</code> is an average HTML file with two constants specified:</p>
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<th>PSKOV constant</th>
<th>Description</th>
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<td><code>PSKOV_ITEM_TITLE</code></td>
<td>Provides title from <code>Title:</code> part of page's header section</td>
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<td><code>PSKOV_ITEM_CONTENTS</code></td>
<td>Provides HTML contents generated out of Markdown contents</td>
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<p><strong>Notes</strong>:</p>
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<li>other <strong>PSKOV</strong> constants are described later</li>
<li>page's header section is described below</li>
</ul>
<p><a name="md"/></p>
<h2 id="04investigateindexmdandcvmdfiles">04. Investigate <code>index.md</code> and <code>cv.md</code> files</h2>
<p><code>index.md</code> file has the following contents:</p>
<pre><code> Title: About me
Slug: index
Hi, my name is Valentin Serov. Here's my self-portrait:
![Valentin Serov self-portrait][serov-portrait]
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Have a look at my [CV][cv] now.
[serov]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentin_Serov
[revolution]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Revolution
[serov-portrait]: myself.jpg
[serov-work]: mywork.jpg
[girl-with-peaches]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girl_with_Peaches
[pskov]: http://opengamestudio.org/pskov
[cv]: cv.html
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<p><code>index.md</code> starts with a so-called header section:</p>
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<th>Header constant</th>
<th>Description</th>
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<td><code>Title:</code></td>
<td>Provides value for <code>PSKOV_ITEM_TITLE</code> constant when generating HTML out of Markdown</td>
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<td><code>Slug:</code></td>
<td>Tells <strong>PSKOV</strong> that this particular Markdown file should be saved under <code><slug>.html</code> filename</td>
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<p>The rest of <code>index.md</code> contents is what any Markdown file looks like.</p>
<p><strong>Note</strong>: <code>cv</code> page is referenced as <code>cv.html</code>, not <code>cv.md</code></p>
<p><code>cv.md</code> file has the following contents:</p>
<pre><code> Title: Curriculum vitae
Slug: cv
Here's my CV in case my paintings still interest you. I took a bit of a modern IT approach to structure my CV as key-value pairs of a dictionary (map), enjoy!
| Key | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | Valentin Serov |
| Age | 46 |
| Marital status | Married |
| Country | Russian Empire |
| Alma mater | Imperial Academy of Arts |
| Education | * Member Academy of Arts (1898) <br> * Full Member Academy of Arts (1903) |
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<p>As you can see, there's nothing new in <code>cv.md</code> except for a Markdown table.</p>
<p><a name="lfsa"/></p>
<h2 id="05launchlfsa">05. Launch LFSA</h2>
<p>Launch LFSA so that it points to directory with the files we just observed:</p>
<pre><code>$ /path/to/local-file-system-access.py /path/to/dir/01.TwoPages
</code></pre>
<p>You should see output similar to this:</p>
<pre><code>DIR: '/Users/kornerr/p/site-pskov-sample/01.TwoPages'
PORT: '8000'
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<p><a name="gen"/></p>
<h2 id="06generatethesite">06. Generate the site</h2>
<p>Now it's finally time to generate your personal web site:</p>
<ul>
<li>Go to <a href="http://opengamestudio.org/pskov">Tool</a> page</li>
<li>Make sure<ul>
<li><code>Path:</code> points to the same directory you specified before</li>
<li><code>Input directory:</code> and <code>Item template:</code> have values from <code>cfg</code></li></ul></li>
<li>Press <code>Generate</code> button to generate HTML files right where Markdown ones reside</li>
<li>Open generated <code>index.html</code> from the site's directory</li>
<li>You should see your web site running locally</li>
</ul>
<p>Take time to observe your new shiny personal web site consisting of two pages.</p>
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