The Readme file!

3color Press is a flask based application intended to streamline making your own comic based website. It is a static website generator that takes markdown formatted text files and turns them into new pages.

I am new to programming and I’m kind of brute learning python and flask with this project. The project is under heavy development and features are being added as we work on them, however a very functional core set of features is included

For more in depth information on how to use check the doc pages. You can see a demo site generated with version 0.1 of this tool at http://3color.noties.org

Features

  • automatic handling of book pages, news pages and single pages
  • easily add a page to the main menu
  • easily add custom single pages
  • News page to collect news feed page
  • Support for showing a thumbnail of most recent comic in desired story line on every page
  • command line tools for easy management

In Progress Features

  • custom themeing support
  • toggle-able theme elements
  • improvement on handling in site menus
  • admin interface
  • better error checking
  • much more?!

Installation

the package is available in pypi

$ pip install 3color-Press

see Installation

For developer minded peoples:

This packages uses:

  • Flask, Flask-FlatPages, Frozen-Flask for site building.
  • Fabric for ssh interactions
  • Click for the command line tool

Contribute

If you’re interested in contributing or checking out the source code you can take a look at:

Support

If you’re having problems or have some questions, feel free to check out the github page: https://github.com/chipperdoodles/3color

Documentation can found at: https://pythonhosted.org/3color-Press/

License

3color-Press is (c) Martin Knobel and contributors and is licensed under a BSD license

see License