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A curated list of awesome static websites services

Awesome Static Website Services Awesome

A curated list of services for static websites.

Inspired by the awesome list thing.

Table of Contents


Editors

Online Editors

  • [Appernetic] (https://appernetic.io) - A Static Site Generator as a Service.
  • Prose - A beautifully simple content authoring environment for static websites.
  • Content Editor- A web interface for editing documents on GitHub.
  • potion - A github-pages compatible editor for Jekyll blogs.
  • jekyll-post-via-web - Html page that allows you to post new articles to your Github hosted site.
  • Github's Online Interface - You can just edit your site in Github's online interface if your site's code is hosted on Github.
  • Siteleaf- Online editor content manager that allows you to publish anywhere, including Github Pages, and it has Jekyll support.
  • Surreal CMS - Hosted CMS for static sites over FTP or Amazon S3.

Android Editors

  • MrHyde - Allows you to write and edit posts on Github.

iOS Editors

  • Git2Go - A git client for iPhone and iPad.
  • Working Copy - A powerful git client for iOS.

Markdown Editors

  • Mou - Markdown editor for developers.
  • Markdown Plus - A markdown editor with extra features.
  • Ulysses - A markdown editor for OS X and iPad.
  • Typora - A beautifully minimal markdown editor for OS X and Windows, with seamless live preview.
  • MacDown - The open source Markdown editor for OS X. Heavily influenced by Mou.

Command Line Tools

  • drjekyll - The missing static site theme package manager.
  • Gynn - Generate your Jekyll blog files and sends them through FTP.
  • (JBH) Jekyll Blog Helper - A shell script to help manage a Jekyll blog site.
  • mrhyde - Static site quick starter script wizard.
  • jtasks - A set of configurable tasks for Jekyll projects.

Themes

Jekyll Themes

Static Site Generators

  • StaticGen- Website showing static site generators and a lot of info about them.

Embeddable Content

Audio

  • SoundCloud - Audio hosting with an embeddable player. Up to 3 hours of content is free.
  • Mixcloud - Audio hosting with unlimited uploads and an embeddable player.
  • Spotify- You can embed any song, album, or playlist with a Spotify Play Button.

Books

Calendar and Scheduling

  • Google Calendar - Embeddable calendar that you can collaborate with other people.
  • Booking.js - Beautiful embeddable booking widget.
  • zenplanner - Paid - Online scheduling for fitness.

Images

  • Flickr - Online photo hosting by Yahoo.

Maps

  • Google Maps - Google maps are easily embeddable.
  • Mapbox - Really nice looking embeddable maps.

Presentations

  • Prezi - Online presentations with really transitions that can zoom and rotate.
  • Reveal.js - HTML presentation framework.
  • Slides.com - A place for creating, presenting and sharing slide decks.
  • SpeakerDeck - Upload your slides as a PDF, and get an online, shareable presentation.

Video

  • YouTube - Embeddable videos with unlimited uploads.
  • Vimeo - Paid - Embeddable videos with no ads.
  • Vevo - Embeddable music videos.
  • Vine - Embeddable vine videos.
  • Wistia - Free plan has a limit of 25 videos.

Other Embeddable Content

Code

  • Codepen - A playground of embeddable front-end code examples.
  • JS Bin - Embeddable front-end code examples.
  • JSFiddle - Embeddable front-end code examples.
  • highlight.js - Syntax highlighting for the web.

Community

Comments

  • Disqus - Easily embeddable comments with nested replies, multiple login methods, and email notifications.
  • Facebook Comments - Embeddable comments for your site by Facebook.
  • IntenseDebate Comments - Embeddable comments with nested replies, multiple login methods, and email notifications.
  • LiveFyre - Real-time comments, SEO-optimized, stocked with social features, and beautiful on both desktop and mobile.
  • Redditjs Embed Widget - Embed Reddit comments on your site. If it hasn't been posted, it will show a link to encourage the user to submit.

Forms

Really Simple Forms

  • Formspree - Receive emails from a form on your static website.
  • elFormo - Simple form processing and response retrieval via email.
  • Flipmail - Simple form processing and response retrieval via email.
  • MailThis- Simple form submissions via email with optional attachments.
  • Simple Form - Simple forms with optional file attachments, email notifications, and online submission viewing.

Normal Forms

  • Google Forms- Saves results into Google Sheets and can email you when there is a submission.
  • FormKeep - Paid - View form submissions in a beautiful web interface. It has spam filtering and it integrates with webhooks such as Gmail, Trello, and Basecamp.
  • 123 Contact Form - Connects to other online services such at MailChimp, Salesforce, and Google Drive. It also integreates with payment Processers and includes security and analytics.
  • FormAssembly
  • FormSite - Form buider, with payments, and form management.
  • FormStack - Forms with A/B testing, partial submission, analytics, and integrations.
  • Sheetsu - POST and GET your data to Google Spreadsheet.
  • Typeform - Awesome forms that can be embedded.
  • Wufoo - Free or Paid - Forms that you can build with a form designer, with notifications, reports, and payments.
  • Zoho - Forms with file upload and captcha.
  • Github Issues - This is an interesting way for developers to get comments/questions. See github.com/sindresorhus/ama for an example.

Live Chat

  • jivochat - JivoSite is a professional live chat for websites that was specifically designed to increase your online sales.
  • LiveChat - Live chat on your website.
  • Olark - Live chat on your website. You can also see who's on your website and what they're doing.
  • SnapEngage - Live chat with integrations and custom styles.
  • tawk.co - Lets you monitor and chat with visitors on your website.
  • WebsiteAlive - Live chat for your website & social networks.
  • Zopim - Live chat with free trial.

Newsletters

  • MailChimp - Free email marketing. You can pay to add more features.
  • Constant Contact - Email marketing with campaigns, autoresponders, and analytics.
  • AWeber - Email marketing with campaigns, autoresponders, and analytics.
  • Campaign Monitor - Email marketing with campaigns, autoresponders, and analytics.
  • MailerLite - Free email marketing. You can pay for more subscribers.

Social Media

  • Google+ - Google+ embedded post.
  • Pinterest - Pin It Button.
  • Twitter - Embedded tweets.
  • Facebook - Facebook embedded plugins.
  • ShareThis - Sharing buttons for multiple social networks.
  • Storify - Embed various social media in one place.

Surveys

  • Google Forms - You can use Google forms for surveys or for forms on your site.
  • SurveyMonkey - Easy to use and free surveys.
  • Typeform - Really beautiful forms.
  • Qualaroo - Embed surveys anywhere on your website that comes up from the bottom right side of the screen.

Static Hosting

  • Github Pages - Free hosting from Github.
  • Pancake - Simple and easy to use. Works with git or Dropbox.
  • paperplane.io - Really simple static hosting with Github or Dropbox.
  • cloudcannon - Allows you to create static sites that are editable by non-developers.
  • Netlify - Premium hosting service for static websites.
  • Firebase Hosting - Rapid deployment and a fast CDN.
  • surge - Free hosting with your custom domain and it has a nice command line tool that works with grunt, gulp, and npm.
  • Forge - Static web hosting made simple, sync with github and publish to CDN and optimize your javascript.
  • CloudCannon - Hosting for static websites where developers can set it up so that non-developers can edit the site.
  • BowTie - Static website hosting with online editor (using prose).
  • GitLab Pages - Free static hosting from GitLab.
  • Aerobatic - Free hosting with SSL, CDN, Automatic Builds, and CORS proxy

Hosting Tools

  • s3_website - Manage an S3 website: sync, deliver via CloudFront, benefit from advanced S3 website features.

E-Commerce

  • Ecwid - Embeddable shopping cart.
  • FoxyCart - Add a shopping cart with basic html code.
  • SnipCart - Include a few lines of code for a full online shop.
  • Gumroad - An all-in-one solution to sell your work.

Search

  • lunr.js - Simple full-text search in your browser.
  • Google Custom Search Engine - Search your site with a custom Google Search.
  • Algolia - Hosted Search API that delivers instant and relevant results from the first keystroke.

Analytics

License

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