# HG changeset patch
# User Steve Losh <steve@stevelosh.com>
# Date 1253829556 14400
# Node ID fcf6b15642850ee36717f3be6558de477eaa77c0
# Parent  3efd1dcf92c7cca77a5f0bb2595fb739049d7085
Add a simple README.

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+-*- markdown -*-
+
+hg-website
+==========
+
+This is a fork of the original hg-scm.org website.  It has two goals:
+
+* Instead of using Django to serve the site, use Blatter to generate a static version which can then be served by a normal webserver like Apache or nginx.
+* Move all the content into a subrepository so volunteers can just clone that repository if they just want to edit the content.
+
+Setup
+-----
+
+To use this version of hg-website you need to install a few things:
+
+Blatter's prerequisites:
+
+    easy_install jinja2
+    easy_install werkzeug
+
+My patched version of blatter (adds the ability to ignore files and add custom Jinja2 filters):
+
+    hg clone http://bitbucket.org/sjl/blatter/
+    cd blatter
+    python setup.py install
+
+Usage
+-----
+
+To have blatter serve the page dynamically, use:
+
+    blatter serve
+
+You can then visit [http://localhost:8008](http://localhost:8008) to view the site.
+
+To render a static version of the site into the `out/` directory:
+
+    blatter blat
+
+For more information on using blatter, check the README file at [http://bitbucket.org/sjl/blatter/src/](http://bitbucket.org/sjl/blatter/src/)
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