Articles, tutorials and other ramblings
Articles about web design, development and some personal ones thrown in. Check out my portfolio.
Articles about web design, development and some personal ones thrown in. Check out my portfolio.
Jekyll paved the way for an entire ecosystem of static site generators to flourish, but what do these new JavaScript SSGs offer over Jekyll? Let’s find out!
In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to switch from using client-side JavaScript to power your DropInBlog blog to using it as a fully functioning ‘headless blog’, with the assisted power of Eleventy and Netlify on the Jamstack.
I was kindly invited onto the Smashing Podcast to talk with Drew McLellan about Eleventy. Follow the link to listen.
If you’re onboard with Netlify then maybe you should switch your custom domains to their platform as well. In this tutorial I’ll show you how to move your custom domain to Netlify DNS and how to link it with a project on Netlify.
I recently joined Jason Lengstorf on his Twitch show Learn With Jason. I didn’t get around to answering all the questions from the live chat. Thankfully with the power of Twitch Chat Reply I was able to go back in time and pull out all the questions people had during the livestream. Here’s a somewhat brief Q & A on those questions.
Netlify Build Plugins let you tap into the different phases in the build process that happen on Netlify. After being invited to the beta I spent some time figuring out what I could do and built a plugin of my own.
I recently switched all my personal project sites to Netlify. I’d like to share how I made the move, my experiences, and the tooling I use to manage domains and track analytics.
Multi-language sites are straight up hard to do. You would think there’s standard HTML spec stuff to handle this kinda stuff? Well there is!