Articles in the Pelican category

  1. I have a personal site!

    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 …

  2. 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 …

  3. 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 …

  4. 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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  5. 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 …

  6. 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 …