2021 in Review
I spent the final few days of 2021 reflecting on the past 12 months – what went well, what didn’t go well and what I learnt by living through it.
Writing
Articles on designing and coding things for the web.
Automate your newsletter with RSS
How publishing content on your personal website first, then using RSS to automate newsletter campaigns can save you a ton of time and effort.
Heffernan Utilities: visual identity and website for a multi-utility contractor
Creating a visual identity, brand guidelines and marketing website for a family run multi-utility contractor based in the North of England.
Responsive images and next-gen formats with Hugo
Optimising image delivery with Hugo, Cloudinary and Forestry.
Instagram on Hugo websites
Learn how to build a simple lightweight, GDPR compliant Instagram feed using Hugo and Profile Page Images Loader in under 5 minutes.
Hugo and redirects
Working with redirects on Hugo websites that deploy with Netlify. Why redirects are important if you make changes to the structure of your content, and how to set them up in less than 5 minutes.
Noba International: a visual identity and website to simplify executive search
Brand identity and marketing website for executive search startup Noba International. Built using Hugo with Forestry CMS.
Working with data which doesn’t require a page
You wont always want Hugo to generate a page for all your content. Here we look at what to do with content that doesn’t require a page, and how to display it on a list page.
Extending the Sanity Eleventy Blog Starter
Learn about GROQ, the Vision plugin, templating in Eleventy and how to add a few key features which are missing from the starter.
Fixing breaking changes when upgrading Hugo
Documenting errors which might break a Hugo site as you upgrade and the solutions to fix them.