Disclaimer: Cross-posted at http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/23xgzf/thoughts_on_hakyll_vs_octopr... I'm starting a personal website/blog, just the typical thing you see a lot of programmers keeping. I'm looking at using Github Pages, but as I don't want to hand-code everything, I'll be using a static site generator. I'm choosing between Hakyll and Octopress, but I wanted to get some opinions before I put in the effort of learning and installing one. I'll start by saying that I'm comfortable with Monads, EDSLs, and Haskell in general. Conversely, I have next to no HTML/CSS skill. What I'm really wondering is, how much hand-HTML does Hakyll require you to do? In particular: 1. Does Hakyll have any support for visual "themes"? If not, are there libraries/examples of visual layouts I could choose from? 2. Does Hakyll integrate well with Github pages? 3. How hard is it to get things like a Facebook like button, twitter sidebar, comments, etc. working in Hakyll? Is there anything equivalent to Octopress's plugins http://octopress.org/docs/blogging/plugins/? 4. Octopress advertises itself as dealing well with code snippets. Does Hakyll deal well with code within pages? I realize that many of these things will not be built into Hakyll, so cases where it's not built in but there are lots of easy examples to take from are welcome. Reccomendations of one over the other are welcome, but I'm more looking for feedback and knowledge from people who have used Hakyll (and Octopress, though that's more tangential to this subreddit). Thanks! EDIT: Generalized to "comments" instead of just "disqus comments"