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High Performance AMP Blog with Jekyll - Part 5
In this series I'll show how to setup a high performance, mobile friendly AMP Blog with custom Jekyll plugins while using GitHub pages as a free hosting provider. We create a staging environment and setup an automatic deploy and testing with Travis CI.
31 Jul 2020: Today we have a look how we can modify our website-theme to be customizable and fullfil the requirements to be recognized as a valid AMP Page. We add Structured Data for Googles Rich Results and Open Graph for Facebook shares.
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High Performance AMP Blog with Jekyll - Part 4
In this series I'll show how to setup a high performance, mobile friendly AMP Blog with custom Jekyll plugins while using GitHub pages as a free hosting provider. We create a staging environment and setup an automatic deploy and testing with Travis CI.
29 Jul 2020: We want a professional setup, so to achieve additional security to ensure that we are not deploying a broken website we want our output tested. One easy way is to setup an automated test that parses the html of our generated website and checks for syntax errors as not closed html-tags and broken links. This is a kind of E2E test, which can be done with very few lines of code.
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High Performance AMP Blog with Jekyll - Part 3
In this series I'll show how to setup a high performance, mobile friendly AMP Blog with custom Jekyll plugins while using GitHub pages as a free hosting provider. We create a staging environment and setup an automatic deploy and testing with Travis CI.
28 Jul 2020: On of the biggest drawbacks of hosting your Jekyll blog with Github Pages is that the standard build limits the plugins/ Gems you can use quite strongly. In this article we have a look how to setup Travis CI to actually build with custom Plugins/Gems and publish it to the hosted GitHub Pages. We overcome GitHub Pages limitation and get a feature rich site by skipping the standard build and let Travis CI do the heavy lifting for us.
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High Performance AMP Blog with Jekyll - Part 2
In this series I'll show how to setup a high performance, mobile friendly AMP Blog with custom Jekyll plugins while using GitHub pages as a free hosting provider. We create a staging environment and setup an automatic deploy and testing with Travis CI.
24 Jul 2020: In this article we have a look how to setup Travis CI to automatically build our Jekyll website.
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High Performance AMP Blog with Jekyll - Part 1
In this series I'll show how to setup a high performance, mobile friendly AMP Blog with custom Jekyll plugins while using GitHub pages as a free hosting provider. We create a staging environment and setup an automatic deploy and testing with Travis CI.
22 Jul 2020: In Part 1 we create a Vanilla Jekyll Blog, serve it for local development and bring it online, all for free and within one hour.
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JAM Day 1 - Content Management, Products & Categories

16 Dec 2019: On Day 1 of our JAMstack journey we explore working with Products and compare the CMS options Forestry and Netlify CMS with a bareback setup which skips the CMS altogether.
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JAM Day 0 - What are we going to do?

9 Nov 2019: After reading a couple of articles about the current developments in the JAM Stack (Javascript, API, Markdown) I got really excited about getting my hands dirty and build a little project. Since the usual tutorials often lack the requirements of real-world applications I got the idea of creating an functional online shop, utilizing shiny new tools as StackBit which are available for free.
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Problems with the facebook share? The wrong text or image shows up?

11 Dec 2015: Every CMS offers widgets and helpers to share your blog/website in popular social networks as facebook. To get the share-button in is usually very easy but a bad surprise often follows when we see which content and image shows up (or not) in facebooks share dialog. We will have a quick look at the basics of open graph parameters and how they need to be included to in the website or blog. Once this is set, we will use the facebook debugger tool to ensure we get the latest content included and we are happy with the results.
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Free software tools for your success

8 Dec 2015: We are going to introduce a software strategy for a fictional brand called FantasticContent.Online to demonstrate how different free tools can be combined to a rock solid base for many kinds business relying on teamwork. We will not be limited to a certain product, but want to have a look on aspects surrounding successful projects. We will see how to organize teams flexible, build short communications and make the life easy for the business and marketeers. Ready? Let’s go ….
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faster, cheaper, safer

19 Nov 2015: The commonly used CMS (Wordpress, Joomla!, …) are all server-side applications which require sophisticated features from the hosting environment, such as a database and activated PHP or Python compilers. Your website-project is of reasonable size, aimed for exposure, performance, and SEO rather than direct interaction with visitors as in community sites or e-commerce? Then you might not need any paid hosting at all anymore. Sounds good? Let’s dive into pre-compiled websites and what they have to offer …
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CMS ... Wordpress, Joomla!, Drupal, Django, Typo3 or Plone

17 Nov 2015: Wordpress, Joomla!, Drupal, Django, Typo3 and Plone are some of the most common Content Management Systems (CMS) today, delivering millions of websites every day. But what is a CMS and what purpose does it serve? Thanks to the open-source community, small projects, start-ups, or businesses with very limited budgets are able to get online with low-cost websites. This article explains some very basic concepts and what kind of issues you can expect when using any CMS…
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