Taken from this month's (17th July) London Web meet-up (http://londonweb.org) - we were joined by Simon Wood. Based in Kent, Simon is a passionate tech/geek and is currently Head of Technology and Innovation at the Shortbreaks and New Ventures division of Holiday Extras, a travel technology company. Simon is also acting CTO for miDrive an in-house Start Up incubator.
Simon's session description for Static Sites Can be the Solution:
"We build complex dynamic websites as a first port of call but these are slow, have issues with scaling and can be complex to host. I believe we should more often look to static sites first. I will demonstrate why static sites are such a good choice and show you how you can build static sites, using tools like Jekyll and other static site generators. We will cover how they can be hosted on S3 and GitHub pages and talk about how they can be frequently updated with the correct workflow even though they are static. You can have a blog on a static site and still make regular new blog posts and have dynamic content."
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@hpoom
WordPress is used
by more than 22%
of the top 10 million
websites as of
August 2013
Wikipedia
"WordPress Pencil and Pins-07" by Christopher Ross. Licensed under Creative Commons.- https://flic.kr/p/a688WQ9
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@hpoom
Some websites are fried
up for the user every
time. But others are
baked once and served
up again and again.
Aaron Swartz
http://bit.ly/bake-fry
"Boston Wiki Meetup" by Sage Ross. Licensed under Creative Commons.- https://flic.kr/p/6QVV3613
28. ”
@hpoom
The web's moved beyond
the desktop, and it's not
looking back. The number
of devices we're designing
for is growing just as
quickly as mobile traffic.
Ethan Marcotte
"Device lab" by Jeremy Keith. Licensed under Creative Commons.- https://flic.kr/p/kj1Dm722
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@hpoom
Markdown is the future
"Markdown is the Future of Writing" by Robby Ingebretsen. - http://bit.ly/mdfuture
## A Little Markdown Example
Markdown is **awesome** because:
- it’s easy to *write*
- it’s easy to *read*
- it keeps you in the *moment*
A LITTLE MARKDOWN EXAMPLE
Markdown is awesome because:
• it’s easy to write
• it’s easy to read
• it keeps you in the moment
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@hpoom
If your app has text fields
that can be formatted, and
you're using your own
janky custom markup
instead of Markdown,
you're doing it wrong.
Ernie Miller
"Old school (9/365)" by Jinny. Licensed under Creative Commons.- https://flic.kr/p/7uELQN39
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@hpoom
I believe that writing a
static site generator is
the new "Hello World". It
is stupidly trivial to
write a basic one.
Timo Zimmermann
http://bit.ly/ssghello
"printf("hello, worldn");" by isipeoria. Licensed under Creative Commons.- https://flic.kr/p/bcgZ5g53
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@hpoom
A flat-file CMS is a content
management system that
stores content in files and
folders rather than in a DB
like a traditional CMS
Jeremiah Shoaf
http://bit.ly/FlatCMS
"P1040010" by Mike Linksvayer. Licensed under Creative Commons.- https://flic.kr/p/dYKSNz62
103. @hpoom
Thank youplease contact me if you have any questions
Twitter: @hpoom
Links: http://bit.ly/LW-July
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By Simon Wood London Web - July 2014
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