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Andrew Weisbeck

Andrew Weisbeck

Full Stack Developer who loves creating content and entrepreneurship. Love college football, my fiance, and computer science. Available for hire!

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Gettin’ Bloggy With Cecil

7 min readJul 12, 2022

How I ‘accidentally’ used the PHP based static site generator to create my latest blog website

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Cecil truly proved itself to be a ‘fine’ static site generator

Trying Out Cecil for the First Time! How to make “The Butler” Static Blog

Honestly, I really don’t know how I ended up on choosing Cecil for a blog/website — it just kind of like popped up when I was clicking around on GitHub. If this would have never happened, I highly doubt I would have ended up using Cecil — maybe ever! So I had to create a blog and test the SSG out before I could forget. To get started I navigated over to the “Quick Start” page and saw this…

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The deploy buttons..

I just had to deploy the blog to Netlify and then import to the Forestry CMS and that’s all I have to do? This is going to be the shortest tutorial of my life…

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Bummer dude!

Oh man… Dang it… Let’s see here — this is actually great practice to look at quickly here. I have had trouble deploying things on Netlify before and sat confused forever because I didn’t look closely enough at the build log. It will…

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Andrew Weisbeck
Andrew Weisbeck

Written by Andrew Weisbeck

Full Stack Developer who loves creating content and entrepreneurship. Love college football, my fiance, and computer science. Available for hire!