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<h2>How is Lektor different from other static site generators?</h2>
<p>Most static site generators such as <ahref="/pelican.html">Pelican</a> are built with
programmers as the primary user. Lektor tries to be more accessible to
non-programmers by providing an admin panel for creating and updating
site content similar to Django or Wordpress.</p>
<divclass="well see-also">Lektor is an implementation of the <ahref="/static-site-generator.html">static site generators</a> concept. Learn how the parts fit together in the <ahref="/web-development.html">web development</a> chapter or view <ahref="/table-of-contents.html">all topics</a>.</div>
<h2>Lektor resources</h2>
<p>Lektor is a young project and therefore has a nascent community compared with
<ahref="/pelican.html">Pelican</a> and Jekyll (the most popular Ruby-based static
site generator). However, the official documentation and initial quickstarts
for the project are wonderful so getting a basic site up and running is
contains the first commands to use to generate a new project scaffold.
There is also a getting started screencast that walks through installing
and initial steps for getting set up with the project.</p>
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<p><ahref="http://www.dreisbach.us/blog/converting-to-lektor/">Converting to Lektor</a>
provides a quick hack for converting exported content in XML from
<ahref="https://www.silvrback.com/">Silvrback</a> to a format that Lektor can use
to generate a new site.</p>
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<p><ahref="https://blog.liip.ch/archive/2016/09/21/lektor-static-cms-put-fun-back-content-management.html">Lektor Static CMS, put the fun back into Content Management</a>
is a short overview as the first part in what aims to be a continuing
series on how to use Lektor as a content management system.</p>
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<p>In
<ahref="https://emptysqua.re/blog/experience-migrating-to-lektor/">Experiences Migrating to Lektor</a>
the author gives his impression of Lektor after moving his 400+ articles
over from a home-grown blogging engine. He talks a bit about how he went
from deploying on GitHub Pages to surge.sh and finally over to Netlify.</p>
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<h3>Anything else to learn about static site generators?</h3>
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