Design of daino was guided by some principles which are explained in this ReadMe.

• No proprietary file formats
  The source of the web site is formatted with common, non-proprietary formats. (pdf) 2020-06-18
• Daino organizes a site as a tree
  The web pages are structured as a tree and collected in a directory tree. (pdf) 2020-06-18
• Pandoc converts from markdown to HTML
  The sources of the web pages are (primarily) written as markdown and converted by Pandoc to HTML. (pdf) 2020-06-18
• Help with language specific input
  Various conventions to speed up textual input exist and can be supported; currently support for german text input is built in. (pdf) 2023-04-05
• Markdown as primary input format
  The web pages are written as markdown text, which allows emphasis, titles, references, images, footnotes etc. (pdf) 2020-06-18
• Separate content and presentation (aka theme)
  The content of the web pages should be indpendent of the presentation. (pdf) 2020-06-18
• Produced web site is self-contained
  The Static Site generated is selfcontained. It can be served by any web server. (pdf) 2020-06-18