Making a getting started guide for screen reader users that want to try a Static Site Generator and I was sad to discover that #11ty is not in any Windows package manager I can find. If this isn’t correct let me know so I can get this right. For now, looks like the guide will be for Hugo #GoHugo#Hugo#SSG#StaticSiteGenerator
@hamatti@andreagrandi it's exactly that. ☝️
I added Open Graph metadata in my Pelican-based blog, and now different images show up in preview card when I share URLs ✨
You can read the HTML code from my home page as an example: 👇 https://www.paulox.net/
I have a #markdown#blog where I want to use the thumbnail of a post also as #OpenGraph image for social link previews. Problem is I can't get it to work because of file path issues. This file is in the "src" folder.
Do I need to store a duplicate in the "public" folder to make this work? My blog post layout has pre-defined, optional thumbnail prop where I pass the blog posts thumbnail.
New on my tiny blog: A post about @eleventy and why it brings me joy. I struggled a bit writing this text for some reason, but it came out OK ... sort of.
From Jason 2.0 is an 11ty-powered digital garden with multiple plots. Each plot behaves as a distinct blog and lives in the "p" directory. (Think Reddit and subreddits.)
I need to upgrade my static site since I have a bunch of articles to post and just hit the limit of maintainable complexity. Which static site generators do you recommend to someone new to the concept? Why?
The Hugo static site generator is making this a breeze! 👍
Not only is it relatively simple to add new functionality, but also we don't need to worry about web service security. Hosting is done by our supplier and there is no CMS that needs updates or has security flaws introduced by badly maintained plugins 💪
Static site generators are not for every use case - but they are just perfect for small sites that are updated infrequently. Most Wordpress-based small business websites could also be a static website generated by a tool like Hugo.
Are there any good #web conferences / meetups with an #RFP open in the #BayArea or virtual?
There are a few projects I've been working on which I'd love to give talks about and share with the community (not Angular related). Could be talking about any/all of:
looking at why my #WordPress site crashed when doing plugin update and thinking it was a version compatibility, when it was a hosting issue running out of disk quota.
When unlimited isn't really unlimited on our reseller account. Guess this is why I also prefer #StaticSiteGenerator now.
After 10+ years of building my personal website with Jekyll, I took the leap and wrote my own static site generator based on makesite.py. It's great to work in the Python ecosystem now. I never got the hang of proper Gem-management, so updating Jekyll was always a bit of a chore.
I also updated the design, following the guidelines from https://brutalist-web.design/ by @davetron5000.
Took me ~3 hours to create systems both on Notion's side and Eleventy's side to turn Notion into my new headless CMS and it's already so much more powerful than my Ghost installation was.
It also fixes a bunch of issues I had with Ghost so they'll never propagate into my new blog posts.
Amazing what a good flow state and desire for a good blog writing experience drives one to achieve.
@RapidWeaver is on sale today in the Indie Apps Sale. Despite the “weaver” name it’s really much more of a strict theme-based “static site generator” with a nice Mac GUI, than a freeform #WebDesign tool.
Which is actually just the kind of thing I’m looking for!
I’m going to try redesigning my hand-coded #Neocities site https://appletalk.neocities.org because like we learned in the 90s, it’s really a pain to edit the navigation menu on every single page when you add some new content.
The few times I’ve used #Hugo the #StaticSiteGenerator I’ve rapidly become bogged down in off-putting low level detail. I just want to write words, select a theme, run a command, and push the resulting nice-looking site!
What #StaticSiteGenerators can I check out that would give me a closer-to-hosted-Wordpress level of “choose theme; type words; have website” initial effort (even if that absolutely implies a low degree of customisation/flexibility)? #SSG#Websites