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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.
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Rating
(75)
Level
Intermediate
Updated
Nov 25, 2015
Duration
2h 16m
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?
Intro 1m Defining Our Criteria 1m Making Our Selection 3m Summary 0m
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
Introduction 1m Import a WordPress Blog into Hexo 4m Summary 1m
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Level
Intermediate
Updated
Nov 25, 2015
Duration
2h 16m
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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
Jeff Ammons
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.

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Course info
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Level
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Updated
Nov 25, 2015
Duration
2h 16m
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