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How to migrate a website hosted on Jekyll into an existing Hugo site.
Three years ago I started a website called cabinhack.com to scratch an itch after discovering Hugo and starting development on After Dark. At the time my primary website was running Jekyll and build times were nearing the 2-3 minute mark for little more than 70-80 blog posts.
Bespoke Jekyll site built from design comps, and integrated with Siteleaf, HubSpot and Google Maps API. Done in 80 billable hours.
:: Jekyll / Sass / Google Maps / HubSpot / Siteleaf
Launched April 11, 2017. The CTO of Security7 Networks reached out with design comps in hand and we whipped ’em up a brand spankin’ new Jekyll marketing site and integrated it with Siteleaf, HubSpot and Google Maps API in a few weeks.
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A Ruby Gem for dealing with money in Jekyll and Liquid templates.
:: Ruby / Bundler / Jekyll / BigDecimal / Money
While trying to calulate discount promotion costs for a Jekyll site I was working I ran into friction calculating promotions in Jekyll. It wasn’t Jekyll’s fault, per se, though it was a shortcoming in Liquid and had to be fixed.
Hosted site migration to Jekyll, AdSense, SES email forwarding, contact form, newsletter, vanity domain, hosting
:: Jekyll / AdSense / Amazon SES
After 6 months working with WordPress.com to create a site themselves, the author of Chicago Gang History wasn’t seeing the kind of traffic they’d hoped for despite all their hard work. In fact, before I found them, Chicago Gang History had had less than 1,000 total visitors—after six months!
Upon examining their content I found a treasure trove of niche content which simply needed a little love. Confident I could improve their online presence I made Chicago Gang History an offer they couldn’t refuse.
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In a sea of choice, which static site generator will you choose?
Many are familiar with the idea of static site generators like Jekyll and why they should use them. But Jekyll isn’t the only SSG out there. In fact, there are literally hundreds of SSGs guaranteed to give you analysis paralysis. With so many to choose from it can be difficult to decide which to use.