First Contentful Blog Post

October 4th, 2019

My first CMS post with contentful

The New Header Section

Gatsby with Contentful is VERY easy. With the Contentful CMS incorporated into your static site generator, you get a nice intuitive GUI interface for uploading new content to the site. When new changes are made or new posts are added to the site, you will then go to the host and trigger a rebuild to update the new changes. There is most likely a way to automate this process or create some web hook or cron job to handle the new build triggers. If that is the case, I will edit and update this content.

The nice thing about this is that a non-tech inclined client can easily upload new content to their sites just like if they were on a templated site like WordPress or WIX offers. The integration is fairly straight forward in terms of setup and for those that are more technically inclined, you can set up Gatsby to make new static pages from markdown files (or other types of data) as well.

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