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+# Goldsmith #
+
+Goldsmith is a static website generator developed in Go with flexibility, extensibility, and performance as primary
+design considerations. With Goldsmith you can easily build and deploy any type of site, whether it is a personal blog,
+image gallery, or a corporate homepage; the tool no assumptions are made about your layout or file structure. Goldsmith
+is trivially extensible via a plugin architecture which makes it simple to perform complex data transformations
+concurrently.
+
+## Motivation ##
+
+Why in the world did I make yet another static site generator? At first, I didn't think I needed to; after all, there is
+a wide variety of open source tools freely available for use. Surely one of these applications would allow me to build
+my portfolio page exactly the way I want right? After trying several static generators, namely Pelican, Hexo, Hugo, and
+Metalsmith, I found that although sometimes coming close, no tool gave me exactly what I wanted.