kiki: a tiny homepage construction set

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kiki is a homepage builder written with the Tomodashi design philosophy. It's built so that if something looks wrong, you can change it yourself without spending hours reading tutorials and watching coding videos.

kiki has:

• 5 built-in easy to modify themes.
• a public wiki mode.
• a static site generation mode.
• a simple markup language called Bug.
• plug-in support for Markdown.
• assistive/screen reader friendly output.
• RSS and HTML generation.
• richly commented and moddable source.
• online & offline documentation.
• dynamic variables and page generation.
• 100% handwritten PHP, HTML and CSS.

kiki does not have:

• javascript.
• external libraries/dependencies
• cookies or tracking data.
• bloat. it's < 100 kilobytes total.
• ML-generated trashcode.
• database structures.
• anything to install; just unzip it.
• social media crud & commenting.
• self-update nagging.

Demo Site

Not sure if kiki is what you're looking for? Take it for a quick ride on the demo site. The demo site runs the full version of kiki, with all of the optional fun stuff like wiki mode enabled.

License

kiki is shareware. It's free to use in unpaid mode, and costs only $15 CAD (~$11 USD) for the full version. The shareware version comes with two basic themes and the bug markup language, and shows a link to kiki's website at the footer of each page.

The paid/full version gets you access to all five themes,  three markdown plugins, public wiki mode, and removes the shareware link from the footer of each page.

Don't want to pay for it? Under the shareware license, you just leave the footer unchanged, so other folks can learn about kiki.

The shareware edition is freely shareable in its original unmodified form under the Creative Commons CC-BY-ND-NC license. (In english: you can share as many copies of the original source code as you like, as long as it is unmodified, maintains attribution to Tomodashi, and isn't being re-badged and re-sold.)

Yes, you absolutely can use and modify kiki for business activities like building your game company website, but you just can't re-sell it or distribute it as your own software product.

Requirements

* A web server running PHP 4.x, 5.x, 6.x, 7.x, 8.x. with the mbstring extension enabled.

* Your favourite text editor.

Optional

* Apache .htaccess or nginx server configuration modifications for "SEO-friendly" permalinks.