Working on a project that you are motivated to build is one of the most effective ways to learn how to code. This is a fun little project to learn about Vue.js, HTML and CSS. Vue.js is an extremely powerful and fast Javascript framework that is also easy to learn. You can use it to develop everything from complex single page applications to simple sites.

Here’s the cool thing about static sites - they are static! This means that they are easy to deploy and inexpensive to host. You can host a static site on any web server that serves static files, In this article I’ll break down a few different hosting options for static sites. TL;DR Netlify is free and especially awesome for static sites.

Wordpress powers around 25% of the world’s websites and has a rich ecosystem of themes, plugins, community support and hosting options. It is often my go-to recommendation when helping friends who want to deploy a website and I have built several Wordpress sites for clients. But, it’s 2018 and I want to build my site with a static site generator.