Build a Better Blog with a Static Site Generator
By Jeff Ammons
Make your blog load faster than your reader can blink with a static website generator without resorting to hand written HTML.
Course info
Level
Intermediate
Updated
Nov 25, 2015
Duration
2h 17m
Table of contents
Why Do My Blog Pages Take Forever to Load?
Introduction
1m
Advantages of a Static Site Generator
2m
Real World Example
1m
Traditional CMS vs. Static Site Generator
2m
The Writing Experience
2m
Summary
0m
What Are the Top 10 Static Site Generators?
Creating Our Blog with Hexo and DocPad
Introduction
3m
Install Hexo, Create New Blog
9m
Install DocPad, Create New Blog with Casper
7m
Starting from Scratch with DocPad
2m
Installing DocPad and Create Custom Blog
6m
Add a List Page and Site Information
5m
Add Tags and Paging
7m
Summary
1m
Styling Our Blog with a Bootstrap Theme
Introduction
3m
Modifying Our Hexo Blog
6m
Modifying the Blog Home Bootstrap Theme
4m
Integrating Blog Home into Our Custom DocPad Blog
10m
Summary
1m
Enhancing Our Blog with Plugins and 3rd Party Services
Introduction
1m
Add an RSS Feed to Hexo
1m
Add an RSS Feed to DocPad
2m
Add Clean URLs to DocPad
2m
Add Date URLs to DocPad
1m
Add Disqus to Hexo
3m
Add Disqus to DocPad
3m
Add MailChimp to Hexo
3m
Add MailChimp to DocPad
1m
Add Google Analytics to Hexo
2m
Add Google Analytics to DocPad
1m
Summary
1m
Workflow: Writing Our Blog and Deploying It with Git
Introduction
1m
Writing Your Blog Posts
15m
What is Git Deploying?
9m
Where and How Can We Git Deploy?
5m
Putting It All Together: Writing and Deploying
5m
Summary
1m
Bringing Our Old Blog up to Speed
Description
Course info
Level
Intermediate
Updated
Nov 25, 2015
Duration
2h 17m
Description
Readers hate slow loading websites, and your blog is no exception! The fastest blog response times possible come from sites that simply serve up pre-rendered files. You don’t want to hand code HTML, of course, so you need a static site generator that lets you write simple Markdown that is rendered to fully templated and styled web pages.
About the author
About the author
Jeff has been passionate about and active in software for over 25 years. Currently he is CEO and Chief Instructor at Code Career Academy (codecareeracademy.com) and runs the Gwinnett Georgia, Microsoft User Group (GGMUG.com). Jeff is a Microsoft MVP in Visual Studio and Development Technologies. He blogs at jeffa.tech. Jeff enjoys speaking to user groups and Code Camps about a variety of technical topics.