Welcome to the Forestry blog! Read up on news regarding our product and the JAMStack!
We’re happy to announce some huge improvements to Forestry.io, our CMS for Jekyll and Hugo sites. Before I outline what’s new, I want to thank everyone who has been testing this while it was in beta (you know who you are). Your help was crucial and we’re going to continue to build an awesome CMS that you love. 👊 What’s new: New Editor We totally rebuilt our WYSIWYG editor (inspired by Medium.
Now you can add a Forestry.io CMS to your GitLab.com static site (Jekyll or Hugo). I’ve been a GitLab user since their very first release in Oct of 2011. I worked at a design agency and converted everything over from SVN to Git and used an internal GitLab installation. I remember submitting a few bugs and Dmitriy was quick to fix them. We loved GitLab then, and still do today.
When it comes to the Internet, content is king. A site that has well written content concisely tells the story behind a brand, helps to inform customers about a business’ products or services and helps guide a user navigate to the information that they seek. I’ve worked with various organizations in helping them choose the technology that is used to publish content onto their sites. When it came down to making a choice, the publishing platform options were often slimmed down by the need for non-technical users to easily publish content.
We’re stoked to announce that Forestry.io is going to be part of Techstars NYC. The 90-day program runs from July until the end of September 2016. What this means for Forestry and our users: We’re going to be surrounded by some of the brightest minds in New York tech We get to focus intensly on making Forestry awesome for our users. Stoked to be working 15-hour days! Over $1,000,000 in amazing “perks” (free stuff) from companies such as Amazon, Digital Ocean, Microsoft, Google, Sendgrid, etc.
My friend, Emily, needed a simple website for her restaurant. She’s a chef and didn’t want to deal with the hassle of DNS, hosting, design, etc. As a recovering freelancer, I offered to help. Normally, I would use WordPress for a site like this, but I was fed up with the headaches that comes with maintaining a WordPress site. So, I took an evening and cranked out a simple 1-page static site.