Start with a simple wiki and use Markdown and Bootstrap to create good-looking, interactive websites, easily.
The wiki advantage: no need to plan ahead or spend time designing: your website or app takes shape in real-time, as you add content or link to content not yet created. It's not a challenge to fix mistakes and add content online, as users peruse your existing content!
Add mods from the growing library, to have interactivity added to your website... blogs, posts, forums, news feeds, twitter etc.
Progress to creating a custom domain model and have your app automatically adapt.
Use markdown to create simple dynamic wikis. Include them in your website, as documentation or help pages etc.
You can use the same engine that powers this website and embed the same content in your offline or firewalled app. Using the API and Javascript clients, you can also embed in Node apps or Angular or others, see Embed the wiki engine.
Get your own, cloud hosted, markdown wiki.
Open source, JVM project you can use now.
Wikis are self-evolving content engines - here you have the advanced features to build self-driving websites.
Wikis (like this one) are a proven and accepted platform for rapid and cooperative content creation.
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Websites powered by this wiki engine:
Some of the features of this wiki engine:
The Markdown language was created to simplify creating web content.
Read further about wikis and the syntax extensions used:
Read this blog for more details on some of the more interesting R&D topics used in this wiki engine.
Project is available on GitHub.