I intend Foliomatic primarily for personal web sites such as this one. It should also be useful for projects and organizations whose Web presence is mostly static content, updated from time to time. It is not going to be a general content management system, nor a framework for highly dynamic “Web 2.0” content, but it will support some dynamic features, such as comments on pages.
Structure
Foliomatic is a site compiler. It reads a directory tree of source files and produces another tree of rendered, static HTML files, which you drop into your web server. Foliomatic is designed to take its input from a version control system, which handles access control and replication. It can, optionally, integrate history information from the VCS into its output.
Foliomatic is thus similar to existing systems such as Ikiwiki, Chronicle, and Jekyll. Foliomatic is more generic in some ways, and more restricted in others.