Start Over Coder

They say every professional coder should have a portfolio available for potential clients and employers to review. Here’s a low-maintenance, inexpensive (or free!) way to do it. The simplest and least expensive way to host a website is to create a static website (I talked all about these in episode 31). But hard-coding all of the pages and your entire file structure is tedious and not a good use of time, especially if you expect the amount of content to grow over time (like with a blog, for instance). Static site generators allow you to set up a template for your site one time...after that's done, you only need to think about adding new content going forward. You write the content, and the site generator will process everything into a bundle of HTML pages for you. If you don't want to write any HTML or CSS you don't even really have to...there are many, many ready-made templates out there so all you need to do is add content, if you want. Easy! You'll need to basics to work with a static site generator: Acce