I’m switched away from my beloved CMS, Drupal, to HTML and Markdown.

Well, I’m still the big supporter of Drupal as well as my colleagues at Opendream. But 3 years with something great, something work out-of-the-box, somehow, slow your passion down (I’m that kind of person).

I was thought about how to write blog entries with separated decoration and context. With Drupal, Markdown works great, but all of your entries are in MySQL. My blog is just a simple HTML therefore fancy hooks are bloat.

Fortunately, It’s a blog-aware, static site generator named Jekyll available. Jekyll is simple enough to not-too-beginer users, all are just HTML and Markdown or Textile. With Jekyll, I can create my static HTML template and write all of my contents in Markdown, SO. SIMPLE.

With a simple script to export all of my Drupal’s nodes into .markdown template file, plus small YAML configuration, I can set my all static HTML site up within 4 hours.

Even I’m using a static HTML, you still can make a comment on the site with Disqus, amazing.

Hope this rebooting could motivate me to be the more frequent blogger .