Getting started
Blot turns a folder into a website. Files become posts on your site. Drag-and-drop to publish. There’s no interface, just files, so you can use your favorite tools. You can create all sorts of sites with Blot: blogs, photography sites, portfolios and much more. Fundamentally, they all work the same way.
Overview
- Sign up and create a site.
- Sync the folder for your site. Blot publishes files inside your folder.
- Select a template to customize the look of your site.
Sync the folder
Sub-folders
You can organize your folder however you like. By default, files inside becomes posts. However, Blot treats files in the following folders differently:
Files
- Markdown .txt .md .rtf
- Images .png .jpeg .gif
- Word Documents .docx .odt
- Google Docs .gdoc
- Bookmarks .webloc .url
- HTML .htm l
- Org Mode .org
Prevent a file becoming a post
Files and folders whose name starts with an underscore are ignored. Ignored files don’t become posts but you can embed them. For example, none of these files become posts:
| _Apple.jpg | Not published because file name starts with an underscore. |
| _Fruit › Banana.jpg | Not published because file is in folder whose name starts with an underscore. |
| Apple.jpg | Published because it’s a type of file Blot can publish. |
Your folder is public
The files in your site’s folder are public. This is useful if you want to embed an image, a video or an audio file in a post. You can also use this to share files with your readers. For example, given the folder below, your readers can download Archive.zip if they visit /Files/Archive.zip on your site.