Rangolio: The Simple Free Blog and Portfolio Website Solution. Period.

Rangolio is a no-frills, simple solution built to create portfolio websites. That's pretty much it. Why Rangolio, when there's like, millions of different blog creation platforms? Well, rangolio is a decent option for you if:

• You need a platform to post blogs with as minimal setup as possible
• You don't really care much about theming, and this website's theme is good enough for you
• You don't have any infrastructure of your own to post blogs (having purchased a domain name is a plus!), although Rangolio can be setup on a server as well

Rangolio does a few things differently, adding convenience.

Minimal setup time

Other content management systems (CMS) like Wordpress or Drupal can take quite some effort to set up, plus their generalized architecture to 'fit everything' with plugins make them bloated, which makes it very easy to un-optimize an optimized tool. Rangolio on the other hand is simple to setup on windows or linux, using it's convenient scripts. There is very basic theming (limited to only some colors) and no plugins.

Simple UI

Rangolio features an intuitive and easy to use UI for managing your content. Rangolio is not trying to be a software which can 'fit everything', and the goal is very simple and clear: Create introduction section for yourself, and post your portfolio/blogs. Nothing else.

Lightweight

Rangolio requires no backend to run. It generates static html, js and css files from the editor which can be served by anything that is capable of serving static websites.

Rich Text Editing

Rangolio features a Rich Text Editor to make content-rich pages with text-formatting options, links and images

Already optimized for basic SEO

Rangolio already includes basic SEO tags, useful for indexing it with different search engines.

Instructions

Setting up Rangolio is very easy. For a TL;DR form of installation, execute one of the scripts below based on your operating system:

Windows OS

Go to whatever folder you wish to install Rangolio, and then run:

curl -o rangolio_installer.bat https://raw.githubusercontent.com/barunespadhy/rangolio-scripts/main/rangolio_installer.bat && rangolio_installer.bat

Linux based OS

In a folder of your choice, open a terminal and then run:

curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/barunespadhy/rangolio-scripts/main/rangolio_installer.sh | bash

For detailed instructions on installing Rangolio can be found in the Wiki: Installation

Setup/Deployment

If you wish to set this up on github, you need to follow some pre-requisites first, and those instructions can be found here.

For understanding how deployment works, see the wiki: Deployment

Start the Editor UI backend by first going to rangolio/backend and then running (depending on your OS):

Windows:

.\venv\Scripts\activate.bat
python manage.py runserver

Linux:

source .env/bin/activate
python manage.py runserver

The Editor UI will be accessible at http://127.0.0.1:8000/

Navigate around the UI, but keep in mind to click 'Publish' and then choose 'server' to make an initial data deployment first. Without this, the viewable UI won't start.

For a TL;DR Viewable UI server deployment, just install serve npm package npm -g install serve, and then in the viewable ui frontend folder rangolio/frontend/viewable-ui, serve the server build:

serve -s dist/server -p 4871

After that, your built ui should be visible at http://localhost:4871/

NOTE: For the built UI to be functional, please ensure that the editor UI has been setup, and some data has been 'published' to the server build. This can be done by going to editor ui, then cliking on 'publish, then choosing 'server' from the modal.