This tool uses tornado templates to make managing lab websites easier.
base.html defines the basic layout, with a header, possibly a footer.
Other html files will {% extends base.html %}.
Page contents that require updating will be created as YAML files for easy maintenance.
For example, people.yaml will include dictionaries of people including their names, bios, and image filepaths, and publications.yaml will include publications with title, author, year, etc.
render.py will output static html files into the website directory; all image files etc will need to be preloaded into the appropriate folders of website.
Most of this has yet to be implemented, but it should greatly ease website creation/maintenance.