For years, the Pelican Static Site Generator (SSG) has been my tool of choice for when it comes to managing and operating my website (and the websites of companies I manage).

In this workshop, I explain how to use Pelican effectively for your own private or professional website.

Workshop content

Fundamentals

• Why should a self-employed or freelance person run a personal or company website at all?
• Why are SSGs a good idea for running small websites?
• Analytics and visitor tracking — do I even want that? And how do I manage this without running afoul of the GDPR?
• Interaction and comments — do I want to enable this, and if so, how?
• Choosing a licence for your own content: it doesn’t always have to be “all rights reserved”, Creative Commons does have its perks!

Getting started with Pelican

• Your first Pelican website
• Basic configuration, structure of a Pelican site
• Selecting and configuring a theme
• Creating articles, pages and feeds

Pelican in Detail

• Accessibility
• Creating multilingual content
• Integrating with CI/CD pipelines for automatic rendering
• Changing and customising themes
• Using and configuring Pelican plugins
• Integrating third-party services

Hosting and Collaboration

• Managing your website using version control software (Git)
• Making your site’s sources publicly accessible and allowing visitors to contribute
• Hosting options: static web server, website hosting in an object store, or GitHub/GitLab/Codeberg Pages

Length

2 days of 8 hours each.

Audience

Maximum attendence for this workshop is 10.

I recommended this course for individuals, freelancers, and small companies who run their own website.

Price

My regular price for running this workshop is € 3,000 excluding taxes, travel, and accommodation.

However, if you would like to offer this course to attendees of a conference, community workshop, or other event that you’re running, I’m willing to revise that rate rather steeply. Please contact me to discuss.