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Editor Link Modals
18 Jun 2018
Ross Phillips
• Features
Front matter is a great way to structure content and metadata for a Jekyll website. We’ve made some updates to allow you to further integrate your front matter into your editing experience.
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Using Jekyll plugins on GitHub Pages
09 May 2018
Mike Neumegen
• Tips
GitHub Pages is a reliable, performant Jekyll hosting provider which has recently added support for SSL. It’s a great hosting platform but has a major limitation, you can’t use custom Jekyll plugins. Today we’re looking at how CloudCannon can help resolve this limitation.
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Brand New Jekyll Templates
22 Feb 2018
Mike Neumegen
• Announcements
Jekyll is often pigeon-holed as a tool for developers to write their blog. This is just one of the many great uses of Jekyll. We’re always interested in exploring unconventional use cases which push the boundaries in Jekyll. Today we’re releasing three MIT licensed templates which do exactly that.
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Jekyll for Freelancers
07 Feb 2018
Mike Neumegen
• Tips
Jekyll is a fantastic freelancer tool for building client websites. Compared to a traditional CMS like WordPress, there are a number of advantages:
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Custom Editor Styles
23 Jan 2018
Ross Phillips
• Features
The editing interface is the core of CloudCannon. It has sensible defaults for most use cases, and can be configured to cover more. We’ve extended the configuration to allow custom styles, alignment and structure.
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Speed up your Jekyll builds
08 Dec 2017
Mike Neumegen
• Tips
Having a short Jekyll build time helps you iterate faster while developing and goes a long way to improving the experience for editors on CloudCannon. In this post, we’re going over how to identify bottlenecks in your Jekyll build and tips on how to address them.
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Build Outputs and Toolbar Options
07 Dec 2017
Ross Phillips
• Features
Editing and syncing are two critical features in CloudCannon. We’ve recently improved and added to those features to make them more configurable than ever.
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Publishing Workflows for Jekyll Editors
29 Nov 2017
Mike Neumegen
• Tips
Our main goal at CloudCannon is to make collaboration between developers and non-technical editors seamless. To an extent we’ve achieved this with editing a Jekyll site; editors can update HTML, Markdown, front matter, blog posts, collections and data files without knowing anything about Jekyll or HTML but what about Git? Recently we’ve been working to achieve the same level of integration for Git workflows. In this post I’m going over some of the new workflows CloudCannon supports.
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App Redesign & Custom Organisation Branding
22 Nov 2017
George Phillips
• Features
Today we released our rebranding across our app. This includes a large number of usability fixes. Below are the most notable changes:
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New CloudCannon Brand
25 Oct 2017
Mike Neumegen
• Announcements
We’ve been reassessing our brand and how it aligns with our values. Simplicity has always been at the core of everything we do at CloudCannon and we felt we could do better with our branding.
