Let's Build: A Consultancy Website - Part 13 - Coding Phase Begins

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It's finally time to code! And with that, I needed a good foundation to build our website on top of. Meet Kirby, my CMS of choice for this project.

Meet Kirby

If you have ever explored other content management systems in the past you may have heard of Kirby https://getkirby.com/. If not, I would describe it as a very trimmed down but an extendable version of WordPress https://wordpress.org that is flexible as hell.

The larger half of this part of the series is me walking you through Kirby from the front-end view. We'll explore the panel, how to install it, what is possible from the CMS and discuss the differences between it and other content management systems.

Key Features

1. No Database
2. Blueprints a.k.a. custom fields
3. The Panel

Read more at: https://web-crunch.com/lets-build-consultancy-website-part-12/

Download the source code for this project

https://github.com/justalever/endlyssdesigns

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