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How to become a freelance web developer: a comprehensive guide

How to become a freelance web developer: a comprehensive guide

Jaimie McMahon · 27 Sep 2023

22 ways to deliver more value to your web development clients

22 ways to deliver more value to your web development clients

Jaimie McMahon · 8 Sep 2023

Eleventy (11ty) vs. Gatsby in 2023 – which SSG is best for you?

Eleventy (11ty) vs. Gatsby in 2023 – which SSG is best for you?

Jaimie McMahon · 8 Jun 2023

Eleventy (11ty) vs. Astro

Eleventy (11ty) vs. Astro

Jaimie McMahon · 16 May 2023

How Jampack optimizes our Eleventy website and improves performance

How Jampack optimizes our Eleventy website and improves performance

David Large · 14 Apr 2023

Top 10 Free SvelteKit Themes for Building Lighting-Fast Static Sites in 2023

Top 10 Free SvelteKit Themes for Building Lighting-Fast Static Sites in 2023

Jaimie McMahon · 3 Mar 2023

Upcoming CloudCannon Interface improvements (Open Beta)

Upcoming CloudCannon Interface improvements (Open Beta)

George Phillips · 8 Feb 2023

Creating sites, the Jamstack way

Creating sites, the Jamstack way

CloudCannon · 7 Feb 2023

SvelteKit vs. Next.js

SvelteKit vs. Next.js

Jaimie McMahon · 3 Feb 2023

Static Site Generator (SSG) Visions, Roadmaps, and Trajectories: What to Watch in 2023

Static Site Generator (SSG) Visions, Roadmaps, and Trajectories: What to Watch in 2023

David Large · 20 Jan 2023

The Top Five Static Site Generators for 2023 (and when to use them!)

The Top Five Static Site Generators for 2023 (and when to use them!)

David Large · 13 Jan 2023

23 of the best Eleventy Themes (Starters) for 2023

23 of the best Eleventy Themes (Starters) for 2023

David Large · 3 Jan 2023

11 Top Eleventy Blog Themes (Starters) in 2023

11 Top Eleventy Blog Themes (Starters) in 2023

David Large · 21 Dec 2022

Looking for an alternative to Netlify CMS?

Looking for an alternative to Netlify CMS?

CloudCannon · 16 Dec 2022

Save time with CloudCannon's Snippets

Save time with CloudCannon's Snippets

David Large · 9 Dec 2022

New CloudCannon features and improvements (November 2022)

New CloudCannon features and improvements (November 2022)

CloudCannon · 1 Dec 2022

Eleventy vs Next.js

Eleventy vs Next.js

CloudCannon · 22 Nov 2022

Looking for a TinaCMS or Tina Cloud alternative?

Looking for a TinaCMS or Tina Cloud alternative?

CloudCannon · 21 Nov 2022

New CloudCannon features and improvements (October 2022)

New CloudCannon features and improvements (October 2022)

CloudCannon · 9 Nov 2022

Does My Website Look Big in This? Six Tips to Lower your Page Weight

Does My Website Look Big in This? Six Tips to Lower your Page Weight

David Large · 20 Oct 2022

The Best Marketing Tools and Integrations for your Static Site

The Best Marketing Tools and Integrations for your Static Site

David Large · 30 Sep 2022

Choosing a CMS for your Static Site: Part 2 — Headless? Git-based, or API-based?

Choosing a CMS for your Static Site: Part 2 — Headless? Git-based, or API-based?

David Large · 13 Sep 2022

Choosing a CMS for your Static Site: Part 1

Choosing a CMS for your Static Site: Part 1

David Large · 7 Sep 2022

What is a Static Site Generator?

What is a Static Site Generator?

David Large · 31 Aug 2022

Static vs Dynamic Websites: The Definitive Guide

Static vs Dynamic Websites: The Definitive Guide

David Large · 24 Aug 2022

Ten Myths about Static Websites

Ten Myths about Static Websites

David Large · 17 Aug 2022

Introducing Pagefind: Static Low-bandwidth Search at Scale

Introducing Pagefind: Static Low-bandwidth Search at Scale

Liam Bigelow · 15 Jul 2022

Fifty of 2022's most popular Hugo themes

Fifty of 2022's most popular Hugo themes

David Large · 20 May 2022

Twelve Amazing Free Hugo Documentation Themes

Twelve Amazing Free Hugo Documentation Themes

David Large · 13 May 2022

How to set up WYSIWYG editing with MkDocs

How to set up WYSIWYG editing with MkDocs

David Large · 13 Apr 2022

Watching your Core Web Vitals on Jamstack

Watching your Core Web Vitals on Jamstack

David Large · 8 Apr 2022

Maximizing the convenience factor: archetypes in Hugo

Maximizing the convenience factor: archetypes in Hugo

Bryce Wray · 23 Mar 2022

How to convert a Bootstrap theme to a client-editable Hugo site

How to convert a Bootstrap theme to a client-editable Hugo site

CloudCannon · 22 Mar 2022

Why should you use a static site generator?

Why should you use a static site generator?

David Large · 16 Mar 2022

What is a Git-based CMS?

What is a Git-based CMS?

Mike Neumegen · 15 Mar 2022

The Ultimate Guide to Hugo Sections

The Ultimate Guide to Hugo Sections

Bryce Wray · 10 Mar 2022

Free Jekyll themes for 2022: Ten great community options

Free Jekyll themes for 2022: Ten great community options

CloudCannon · 9 Mar 2022

The 'Islands' era

The 'Islands' era

Mike Neumegen · 8 Mar 2022

Top 10 Hugo Themes for 2022

Top 10 Hugo Themes for 2022

David Large · 2 Mar 2022

The 'Rebirth' era

The 'Rebirth' era

Mike Neumegen · 2 Mar 2022

Planning for your next Hugo project

Planning for your next Hugo project

Bryce Wray · 24 Feb 2022

The 'Let's Recreate Rails' era

The 'Let's Recreate Rails' era

Mike Neumegen · 23 Feb 2022

The 'Maybe Static Wasn't So Bad' era

The 'Maybe Static Wasn't So Bad' era

Mike Neumegen · 16 Feb 2022

Forestry to CloudCannon: The full migration guide

Forestry to CloudCannon: The full migration guide

Mike Neumegen · 11 Feb 2022

The 'SPAs are awesome' era

The 'SPAs are awesome' era

Mike Neumegen · 10 Feb 2022

The ‘Reinvention’ era'

The ‘Reinvention’ era'

Mike Neumegen · 2 Feb 2022

The ‘After Jekyll’ era

The ‘After Jekyll’ era

Mike Neumegen · 25 Jan 2022

The ‘Before Jekyll’ era

The ‘Before Jekyll’ era

Mike Neumegen · 14 Jan 2022

How Ruby on Rails uses Jekyll to build their marketing site

How Ruby on Rails uses Jekyll to build their marketing site

CloudCannon · 29 Nov 2021

Expansive developer documentation with Hugo

Expansive developer documentation with Hugo

CloudCannon · 22 Nov 2021

How the Jekyll SEO plugin helps you optimize your site

How the Jekyll SEO plugin helps you optimize your site

CloudCannon · 15 Nov 2021

Comparing a Jekyll and Hugo template

Comparing a Jekyll and Hugo template

CloudCannon · 8 Nov 2021

How the Jekyll Feed plugin generates your Atom feed

How the Jekyll Feed plugin generates your Atom feed

CloudCannon · 1 Nov 2021

Deconstruction: How Digital.gov uses Hugo to power their community site

Deconstruction: How Digital.gov uses Hugo to power their community site

CloudCannon · 25 Oct 2021

What is a static website?

What is a static website?

CloudCannon · 17 Oct 2021

Top 10 Headless Commerce Tools to Build an eCommerce Storefront

Top 10 Headless Commerce Tools to Build an eCommerce Storefront

Diego Salinas Gardón · 14 Oct 2021

Deconstruction: How Bootstrap powers their documentation site with Hugo

Deconstruction: How Bootstrap powers their documentation site with Hugo

CloudCannon · 11 Oct 2021

Deconstruction: How Bitcoin.org uses Jekyll to power their marketing site

Deconstruction: How Bitcoin.org uses Jekyll to power their marketing site

CloudCannon · 11 Oct 2021

Making a Page Builder with CloudCannon

Making a Page Builder with CloudCannon

Jordan Trbuhovic · 6 Oct 2021

Looking for a Forestry alternative?

Looking for a Forestry alternative?

CloudCannon · 13 Sep 2021

Choosing a static site generator with zero experience

Choosing a static site generator with zero experience

David Large · 1 Sep 2021

On Git, with zero experience

On Git, with zero experience

David Large · 25 Aug 2021

How I created my first static website, with zero experience (1/∞)

How I created my first static website, with zero experience (1/∞)

David Large · 16 Aug 2021

Eleventy (11ty) vs. Jekyll

Eleventy (11ty) vs. Jekyll

CloudCannon · 10 Aug 2021

Eleventy (11ty) vs. Hugo

Eleventy (11ty) vs. Hugo

CloudCannon · 3 Aug 2021

Switching from WordPress to Hugo

Switching from WordPress to Hugo

CloudCannon · 21 Jun 2021

Why you should use Hugo for your Marketing Site in 2021

Why you should use Hugo for your Marketing Site in 2021

CloudCannon · 13 Jun 2021

Jamstack vs. WordPress - reasons to make the change

Jamstack vs. WordPress - reasons to make the change

CloudCannon · 25 May 2021

The case for Distributed Persistent Rendering

The case for Distributed Persistent Rendering

Mike Neumegen · 17 May 2021

Jekyll vs. Hugo - choosing the right tool for the job

Jekyll vs. Hugo - choosing the right tool for the job

CloudCannon · 4 Mar 2021

Git-based CMS or API-first CMS - main differences and benefits

Git-based CMS or API-first CMS - main differences and benefits

Farrel Burns · 17 Feb 2021

G Suite Authenticated Sites with CloudCannon and SAML

G Suite Authenticated Sites with CloudCannon and SAML

George Phillips · 4 Feb 2020

What's new in Jekyll 4

What's new in Jekyll 4

Mike Neumegen · 3 Sep 2019

Jekyll themes with GitHub

Jekyll themes with GitHub

Jordan Trbuhovic · 10 Jul 2019

Private Jekyll themes with Gemfury

Private Jekyll themes with Gemfury

Jordan Trbuhovic · 13 Jun 2019

Brand New Jekyll Templates

Brand New Jekyll Templates

Mike Neumegen · 22 Feb 2018

Jekyll for Freelancers

Jekyll for Freelancers

Mike Neumegen · 7 Feb 2018

Speed up your Jekyll builds

Speed up your Jekyll builds

Mike Neumegen · 8 Dec 2017

Publishing Workflows for Jekyll Editors

Publishing Workflows for Jekyll Editors

Mike Neumegen · 29 Nov 2017

Three New Jekyll Templates

Three New Jekyll Templates

Mike Neumegen · 28 Mar 2017

7 Free Jekyll Templates

7 Free Jekyll Templates

Mike Neumegen · 6 Dec 2016

Drupal vs Jekyll + CloudCannon

Drupal vs Jekyll + CloudCannon

Mike Neumegen · 24 Sep 2015

Who's using Jekyll?

Who's using Jekyll?

Mike Neumegen · 12 Jun 2015

Running a kickass online conference with 400 attendees for $50

Running a kickass online conference with 400 attendees for $50

CloudCannon · 19 May 2015

How to create a super simple Christmas landing page

How to create a super simple Christmas landing page

George Phillips · 23 Dec 2014

How to create a browser window with just CSS and HTML

How to create a browser window with just CSS and HTML

George Phillips · 21 Dec 2014

How to create an animated pickup in CSS and HTML

How to create an animated pickup in CSS and HTML

George Phillips · 19 Dec 2014

Docker in CloudCannon

Docker in CloudCannon

CloudCannon · 17 Dec 2014

The ultimate list of services for static websites

The ultimate list of services for static websites

Mike Neumegen · 12 Dec 2014

Have SSL on your CloudCannon website for free

Have SSL on your CloudCannon website for free

Mike Neumegen · 9 Dec 2014

Google's transforming material icons in HTML and CSS

Google's transforming material icons in HTML and CSS

George Phillips · 5 Dec 2014

Controlling video playback with the mouse

Controlling video playback with the mouse

Mike Neumegen · 1 Dec 2014

Why every freelancer should solo travel around Thailand

Why every freelancer should solo travel around Thailand

Mike Neumegen · 25 Nov 2014

How Pixelapse image blurring works

How Pixelapse image blurring works

George Phillips · 19 Nov 2014

3 ways to improve your web design skills

3 ways to improve your web design skills

George Phillips · 17 Nov 2014

How the Facebook content placeholder works

How the Facebook content placeholder works

George Phillips · 15 Nov 2014

Turn ANY template or theme into a CMS

Turn ANY template or theme into a CMS

CloudCannon · 1 Sep 2014

Build e-commerce sites on CloudCannon with Snipcart

Build e-commerce sites on CloudCannon with Snipcart

CloudCannon · 30 Jul 2014

Using CloudCannon with JavaScript

Using CloudCannon with JavaScript

George Phillips · 18 Apr 2014