Actually, I have had a personal site for quite some time. With the successful deployment of eval-pelican completed I think it is time to re-deploy my personal web site. After all, eval-Pelican is an evaluation of the Pelican static site generator. Although, it seems to have morphed from evaluation, to …
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We have a Custom Domain Name!
In the last article I showed you how I deployed this site to Github pages. It's easy and it works. But, oh boy, the URL! I just want to be able to go to www.eval-pelican.com, not username.github.io/eval-pelican. Turns out I can. Git hub pages supports …
Updating and Deploying on Github.
Last year I showed you how I published my Pelican web site to Netlify. Although I am a big fan of Netlify, I decided to investigate some of the many other hosting options. Because the source material for this web site is hosted in a Github repository, it just made …
Pelican Themes
Up until now you have been using the default web design theme that came with Pelican. But, what if you don't like it? Well, you can change it. Changes to the Pelican theme can range from simple tweaks to all out redesign depending on your needs and skill level.
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Creating Pelican Content
In a previous article I showed you how to set up a basic Pelican static web site generator. If you followed that article, you installed some basic system tools, and setup your project. But, I never got around to explaining how to actually create the web site. In this article …
Pelican Startup Guide
Pelican is a static web site generator written in Python. It allows you to write content using simple a markup format. The site it creates is completely static making it easy to host anywhere. Before creating a website, there is some setup and configuration needed to create a proper development …
10 Reasons to garden
Two Sabbaths ago, we were pleased to have Rachel Handley of Mind Over Eating as our guest speaker. During her intro she asked the audience (among other things) to raise there hands if they had a garden. I was dismayed that only 6 hands went up. As many of you …
Let's Talk Strawberries
Good Morning Gardeners, and Happy Easter. I was out earlier and noticed that the garden centers are now open. Bobz on TV Highway, one block east of 185th has opened but are not fully stocked. Fred Meyer has opened it's garden center but is also thinly stocked as well.Mostly …