What are the options for having a simple blog, content management system that will deploy the full site as static html over FTP/SFTP and any blog API?
I am aware of Thingamablog but it hasn't been updated in more than a year so i guess is dead now. What are my alternatives that must export at least static HTML to a FTP server?
It would be nice if the app would have some visual gui to enter the blog post and could run from a USB stick.
Fog creek still sells CityDesk if I'm not mistaken. That's a CMS tool that generates static HTML. I don't know if it will run from a USB stick, but it's got a nice UI.
I don't know that Thingamablog is dead just because it hasn't been updated in a year. Lack of recent updates doesn't necessarily mean the project is dead, it just may mean that it has achieved it's goals and has nothing more to add. Does Thingamablog do what you need?
You could use the MoWeS Portable: The Modular Web Server.
http://www.chsoftware.net/en/useware/mowes/mowes.htm
It lets you pick and choose a number of static and dynamic services to run on top of a web server straight off the USB drive or a virtual drive.
I run a Wiki off a virtual drive using Mowes at work and at home, i run a personal blog from my usb stick.
Its verrry easy to configure and powerful enough to be productive.
Edit: Heres a link to help you get started with it: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Installing_on_WOS_Portable_(Windows)
In the download section, you can select what packages you want to install. This is where you can select what CMS/Blog softwares you want to include.
How about TiddlyWiki. Not a blog or CMS, but it seems to be the kind of thing you need.
Today I came across this tool: Zeta producer. They have a free and a pay version.
Second the motion for CityDesk. You could probably run your blog on the free version (up to 50 "assets" - files, pages, images, etc.), and publishes static HTML to servers via FTP as its specialty. It's trivial to add updates; re-publish process does a differential between your new version and the one that's on the server, and only makes necessary changes.
Examples abound - just google for "*.cty" files. Here's a CityDesk site I help run:
Hope this helps.
Hi, Thingamablog is active again. 1.5 will be released soon, currently 1.5veta5 is the latest. Looks good for what you need.
Paul.
I just clicked over from another site and figured I should take a look around. Like what I see so now I'm following you. Look forward to checking out your some of your posts again.