All secure now ⇒
Thanks to my hosts inexpensive SSL certificates, my site now defaults to https, instead of plain http.
A small thing, but I believe it is important to be as secure as possible.
Site Update - Archives ⇒
Man, do I ever love Statamic and how easy it is to use.
I just added yearly and monthly archives. To get there, add the archives/year/month at the end of thedalzells.org/blog like this.
Was pretty easy once I figured out to use Routes and the since & until tags.
A Little Bit Faster Now ⇒
After I switched to Statamic (from Wordpress) and imported my old posts, I noticed my site was quite slow (3-5 secs).
Turns out when there are multiple entries that resolve to the same slug, Statamic's caching doesn't work that great. Once I found and fixed the duplicates, the site got better but still not great (1.5-3 secs). My framework, Bootstrap, requires jQuery so I changed from using locally hosted copies to CDN versions. I didn't understand that CDN could be much faster than...
New Website ⇒
Welcome to our new website!
After Boris' talk on blogging I committed to blogging more, but only on a platform that I controlled, where my data is easily readable convertible.
I wanted either a static site (Octopress, Jekyll) or a flat-file CMS (no database) that understands Markdown. I also wanted one that had a chance of lasting, so I was looking for a paid system with support and an active community. This lead me to Statamic.
To make it easy for Christine to use, I wrote an add-on so...