How Flourish works

Flourish generates websites by passing content ("source") through templates to create pages that you define (rather than only those provided in the code, or by adding a plugin).

In order to create a website with Flourish, you will need three directories:

• source — contains the sources of the pages, the site configuration, the generation script, and any assets for the site
• templates — contains the wrapper HTML used to convert the sources into webpages
• output — contains the generated website

You can use the flourish command-line script to:

• setup a new example website
• preview the website locally, as you work on it
• generate the website, ready to upload to your hosting provider
• upload the website to Amazon S3 (if you are using S3 to host the website, or just to keep a backup of your site)