Hi, Brievcase is still in beta version. I welcome everyone to contribute to this project on GitHub. I would love to see Brievcase grows and keeps getting better everyday in the vast universe. You can also contribute to this documentation to make it better and easier to understand. Thank you!
Hello. Welcome to the Brievcase documentation. I'll guide you through on how to download and deploy the Brievcase on your web server.
Brievcase is a fast, lightweight, beautiful and simple portfolio platform built for photographers, designers, programmer, freelancers, students and etc. This platform is inteded to showcase your previous works, just like an online resumé/portfolio. It is a file-based web platform so there is no installation needed. All you need to do is to extract the ZIP archive into your web server and you are ready to go.
While showcasing your works, Brievcase also allows you to write a blog at the same time. I'll guide you on how to blog with Brievcase later. The blog post uses the famous Markdown for easy content creation and Parsedown to display the content fast. Brievcase also uses both YAML and JSON for configurations.
In the other hand, it provides theming feature so that you don't have to change your portfolio content each time you feel like changing the look of your portfolio. Designing a theme is also pretty simple especially when you're familiar with WordPress.
You might ask, why do you need Brievcase? First of all, Brievcase is intended to building an online portfolio only, it is not a fully extensible CMS like WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, Grav and many more. Hence, this is what makes Brievcase simple and easy to use.
When creating a website, we often need to install extra plugins or extensions. This, however, makes the website more complex and sometimes slower to load. But Brievcase is not a website, it is an online portfolio so plugins aren't necessarily needed.
The reason I started this project is because I need a very simple portfolio, but beautiful and easy to manage. I found that CMS is great for building awesome websites, but sometimes it is a bit complicated even to manage a small and lightweight website like portfolio. The solution that I have is to create my own platform.
Like the other CMS mentioned above, Brievcase is an open source project too. I welcome everyone who wants to contribute to the project on Github.
The full documentation about Brievcase can be found here.