David Large
12 October 2022
On our last episode of Static Feedback, I spoke with Joost van der Schee about ‘Artisanal Web Development’, the approach he takes to solo web development projects. Over the course...
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1 October 2022
Will my new static website integrate with external applications and services? Marketing and sales teams need new websites to integrate smoothly with the external tools they already depend upon —...
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14 September 2022
Congratulations! You’re well on your way to identify the right content management system (CMS) for your team. At this stage in your journey you’re already likely to recognize the benefits...
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8 September 2022
By now you may have decided on the static site generator (SSG) you’ll use to build your static website. Let’s now examine the most important web publishing tool in your...
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1 September 2022
So you’ve decided you’d like a static website. Great news! Let’s dig into the tools we use to create static websites, why we use them, and how they fit into...
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25 August 2022
When it comes to making a website, you’ve probably come across the terms static and dynamic. But what do they mean for you? And which approach should you choose? Let’s...
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18 August 2022
If you’ve ever searched out the differences between static websites and dynamic websites, you’re likely to have discovered several questionable — if not outright false — statements about what static...
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16 July 2022
We’re delighted to launch Pagefind, an open-source tool that adds search to your static websites without hosting any infrastructure, while respecting your users’ bandwidth. At CloudCannon, we firmly believe there...
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24 June 2022
A few months ago, I read a fascinating interview with Matt Mullenweg, the CEO of Automattic and co-founder of WordPress. Among other glimpses into the inner workings of the 17-year-old...
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14 April 2022
MkDocs is a fantastic static site generator (SSG) for project documentation. It builds quickly, its documentation source files are written in Markdown, and its sites are configured with a single...
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9 April 2022
Whether we notice it or not, we’re all living and working in a Core Web Vitals world. Three major metrics — Largest Contentful Paint, First Input Delay, and Cumulative Layout Shift...
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24 March 2022
There are many reasons why static site generators (SSGs) have become so popular, especially in recent years. The reason which seems to come up most often is that SSG-based sites...
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