File-based + database-free site generators are an increasingly popular approach to building websites and blogs. On this list, most light grey are static site generators, which maintain flat, ready-to-serve html. Others dark grey use a similar file-based cms concept, but output dynamic php.
Mark up websites, graphics, and photos, or start brainstorming on a blank canvas. Browse the web with your friends or make that conference call more productive than ever. No plug-ins, downloads, or firewall voodoo - it's all here, ready to go when you are. Browser-agnostic, user-friendly.
Thimble makes it ridiculously simple to create your own web pages. Write and edit HTML and CSS right in your browser. Instantly preview your work. Then host and share your finished pages with a single click. Easy, huh?
RubyFrontier is a TextMate bundle implementing a Web site framework; it turns TextMate into a tool for writing and maintaining Web sites. Its architecture and philosophy are modelled after UserLand Frontier, but it is written in Ruby.
Swish-e is a fast, flexible, and free open source system for indexing collections of Web pages or other files. Swish-e is ideally suited for collections of a million documents or smaller. Using the GNOME™ libxml2 parser and a collection of filters, Swish-e can index plain text, e-mail, PDF, HTML, XML, Microsoft® Word/PowerPoint/Excel and just about any file that can be converted to XML or HTML text. Swish-e is also often used to supplement databases like the MySQL® DBMS for very fast full-text searching. Check out the full list of features.