Marle
- Domain: software
- Sub-Domain: web
- ID: marle
- UUID: 314df26f-913e-4052-a08e-007e29b85b19
Plain-English Overview
Marle is a writing and content system designed to keep written work stable over time, even as websites, layouts, and styles change. It focuses on separating what is written from how it is displayed, so essays, journals, and archives can evolve without being rewritten or broken.
Rather than locking content into a single format or platform, Marle treats writing as structured data. This allows the same body of work to be reused, reorganized, and presented in different ways while preserving its original meaning and intent.
As a product, Marle exists less as a single piece of software and more as a practical framework: real implementations, reference tools, documented patterns, and working examples drawn from live websites. It is actively used across my own projects as a production-ready approach to long-form writing, archival content, and ongoing publications.
Marle is for authors and developers who want their writing to remain readable, portable, and durable — not tied to trends, platforms, or short-lived publishing systems.
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Marle
- Domain: software
- Sub-Domain: web
Modern Blogging Without Limits
Marle began as an exploration of how to write and store my own blogs and articles for use across my websites. I wanted a way of writing that wouldn’t lock my work into a single format or presentation, and that would remain usable as technologies and designs change over time.
What emerged is a simple approach: treating writing as a stable artifact rather than a finished layout. The content is stored as structured data, making it easy to revisit, adapt, and reuse the same body of writing across different websites, layouts, or even printed formats without rewriting it.
I use Marle for a majority of my public written pieces. It isn’t a product anymore, but an approach — one that values longevity. The guidelines I follow are intentionally minimal, staying close to good, semantic writing, with carefully chosen components used for special recurring visuals across a body of work.
This project is developed under my software development and systems work studio, Midnight Citylights.