Building Sites With Middleman

In this series we are going to learn how to build sites using static site generators. Specifically one called Middleman. Static sites are faster and much more responsive that database driven ones. This site is made with Middleman. Let's go static!

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Building Sites With MiddlemanWhat is Middleman and How to Use It?

Middleman is the static site generator. In this video series we are going to take my current site watch-learn.com and redesign it so that it uses Middleman instead of Wordpress.

Episode  01  / Duration 21:35  / 
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Building Sites With MiddlemanSetting up Gulp.js With Middleman

In this episode we are going setup our Middleman project so that it works with Gulp.js.

Episode  02  / Duration 26:57  / 
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Building Sites With MiddlemanMiddleman Partials and Pages

In this episode I'm going to show you how to use Middleman partials and how to make new pages.

Episode  03  / Duration 13:44  / 
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Building Sites With MiddlemanInstalling a Blog and Creating Articles

In this episode we are going to install a blog, generate some articles and list out those articles on our front page.

Episode  04  / Duration 13:56  / 
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Building Sites With MiddlemanCreating Multiple Blogs and Article Generators

In this video you will learn how to make another blog - or article type with Middleman. Also I will show you how to make article generators for those article types.

Episode  05  / Duration 16:59  / 
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Building Sites With MiddlemanMiddleman Permalinks

In this Building Web Sites With Middleman episode we are going to be talking about Middleman permalink or URLs and how you can make them better.

Episode  06  / Duration 09:04  / 
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Building Sites With MiddlemanDisplaying Front Matter and Making Article Layouts

In this Building Web Sites With Middleman episode we are going to display our front matter and make article layouts using this static site generator.

Episode  07  / Duration 17:36  / 
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Building Sites With MiddlemanImage Manipulation

Middleman static site generator has some great options for manipulating images. In this episode of Building Web Sites With Middleman series we are going to learn how to manipulate image sizes and aspect ratios.

Episode  08  / Duration 09:25  / 
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Building Sites With MiddlemanMiddleman Tags

Middleman static site generator has some great documentation, but some of it is not that good. Tags are not explained very well, especially if you have multiple Middleman blogs.

Episode  09  / Duration 10:28  / 
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Building Sites With MiddlemanMiddleman Categories

In this episode of Building Web Sites With Middleman Static Site Generator we are going to take a look at categories.

Episode  10  / Duration 8:35  / 
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Building Sites With MiddlemanData Files

In this episode of Building Web Sites With Middleman we are going to look at how this static site generator handles data files.

Episode  11  / Duration 14:02  / 
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Building Sites With MiddlemanDeploying Middleman Site

In this episode of Building Web Sites With Middleman Static SIte Generator we are going to deploy our site to our servers subfolder.

Episode  12  / Duration 11:11  / 
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