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I notice that a lot of researchers tend to have crappy-looking websites, often because they aren't willing to put in the time it takes to learn HTML, CSS, and design principles--they'd rather do research. I'm assuming that said researchers know LaTeX, as it's pretty much the standard for academic typesetting. So why not leverage that knowledge to make a kick-ass homepage? Are there any LaTeX packages or tools that are designed with the easy creation of a nice-looking website in mind? And, no, I don't mean just haphazardly turning a topology paper into a Web page.

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    This seems to be a duplicate of other tex to html conversion questions apart from the opinion based comments on other techniques, so I voted to close on that basis, sorry, – David Carlisle Feb 01 '16 at 07:56
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    I don't think so. TeX (et al), after all, is about putting things (mostly text and maths) nicely on a page of fixed dimensions. Websites are not about fixed dimensions, etc. In fact, if the primary goal of some bit of text and so on is for it to end up in HTML/CSS, I doubt many people here will encourage others to write it in *TeX. (Not that it's impossible, just that it's not the right starting point.) – jon Feb 01 '16 at 07:58
  • @jon I would encourage it :) it is good starting point, but you needs to know some limitations from the beginning – michal.h21 Feb 01 '16 at 08:19
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    see also http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/289562/2891 and https://github.com/michal-h21/tex4ht-enhanced-web and directly related to static sites is this project: https://github.com/michal-h21/jekyll4ht – michal.h21 Feb 01 '16 at 08:22
  • @michal.h21 -- Well, naturally, you'd be one of the exceptions! I hope to find time to try your jekyll4ht some time (though I do find tex4ht to be a finicky thing to use). – jon Feb 01 '16 at 21:54

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