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-# PicoSite
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+# PicoPage
+
+A minimalistic Website generator.
+
+PicoPage creates simple static websites from markdown files.
+
+## Directory Structure
+
+```
+my_site
+|- site.config (main website config)
+|- navigation.config (definition of the nav bar)
+|- footer.config (definition of the footer)
+|- pages (holds all sites)
+|   |- page01.md
+|   |- page02.md
+|   |- ...
+|- resources (resource files for the site)
+|   |- site.css
+|   |- site.js
+|   |- favicon.ico
+|- static (images, documents, ...)
+|   |- image.png
+|   |- document.doc
+|   |- my_files
+|       |- file01.txt
+|       |- ...
+|- publish (holds the compiled HTML files)
+|   |- index.html
+|   |- ...
+```
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+DIR_PAGES = 'pages'
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+import argparse
+import pathlib
+
+import const
+
+
+class PicoPage:
+    def __init__(self, base_path):
+        self.base_path = base_path
+
+    def read_pages(self):
+        pages_dir = self.base_path / const.DIR_PAGES
+        for file_name in pages_dir.glob('*.md'):
+            yield open(file_name).read()
+
+    def main(self):
+        print(list(self.read_pages()))
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Generate static html pages.')
+    parser.add_argument(
+        'path',
+        type=pathlib.Path,
+        default=pathlib.Path('.'),
+        help='Base path of the website files.')
+
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+
+    pico = PicoPage(args.path)
+    pico.main()
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diff --git a/sample-site/pages/template.md b/sample-site/pages/template.md
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+# This is a test page
+
+there will be something meaningful here in the future
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