Getting started

Blot turns a folder into a website. Files become posts on your site. Drag-and-drop to publish. There is 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.

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Overview

1. Sign up and create a site.
2. Sync the folder for your site. Blot publishes files inside your folder.
3. Select a template to customize the look of your site.

Sync the folder

• DropboxUse a folder in Dropbox.
• GitUse a git repository.
• Google DriveUse a folder in Drive.
• iCloudUse a folder in iCloud Drive.

Files

• Markdown .txt  .md  .rtf
• Images .png  .jpeg  .gif  .tiff  .webp  .avif
• Word Documents .docx  .odt
• Google Docs .gdoc
• Bookmarks .webloc  .url
• HTML .html
• 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:

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:

• Pages
• Drafts
• Templates

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.