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
Rating
Level
Intermediate
Updated
Nov 25, 2015
Duration
2h 16m
Table of contents
Why Do My Blog Pages Take Forever to Load?
What Are the Top 10 Static Site Generators?
Creating Our Blog with Hexo and DocPad
Styling Our Blog with a Bootstrap Theme
Enhancing Our Blog with Plugins and 3rd Party Services
Workflow: Writing Our Blog and Deploying It with Git
Bringing Our Old Blog up to Speed
Description
Course info
Rating
Level
Intermediate
Updated
Nov 25, 2015
Duration
2h 16m
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.