Building a Website with Statamic

1h 33mAdvanced2022-08-24

Authors

Zuzana Kunckova

UK-based web developer with a background in psychology

Course details

Statamic is a flat-file, Laravel- and Git-powered content management system (CMS) designed for building beautiful, easy-to-manage websites. If you have experience with a CMS like WordPress and you know a little PHP, you may want to shift your approach in how you think about website design. In this course, instructor Zuzana Kuckova walks you through the process of creating a fully functioning Statamic website. Explore the entire range of the web design process, from customization strategies to tips for building a website without a starter kit. Zuzana shows you the technical skills you need to know to boost your career and level up as a back-end web developer. Along the way, test out your new skills in the practice challenges at the end of each section.

Skills covered

LaravelPHPContent Management Systems (CMS)Back-End Web DevelopmentAdvancedWeb DevelopmentOpen Source

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Introduction to Statamic
02 - What you should know

1. Getting Started

03 - Project walk-through
04 - What is Statamic
05 - Installing Statamic

2. The Back End

06 - Content modelling
07 - Collection, blueprints, and fieldsets
08 - Adding content
09 - Navigation and forms
10 - Challenge - Contact page content
11 - Solution - Contact page content

3. Building the Design

12 - Base layout and navigation
13 - Book listing page
14 - Book page
15 - Contact page
16 - Home page
17 - Challenge - Make the About page dynamic
18 - Solution - Make the About page dynamic

4. Customizing Statamic

19 - Customising the Statamic dashboard - Widgets
20 - Customising the Statamic dashboard - Add-ons
21 - Challenge - Installing a widget or an add-on
22 - Solution - Installing a widget or an add-on

5. Deploying Statamic on Netlify

23 - Getting ready to deploy
24 - Deploying the project on Netlify
25 - Challenge - Update website content
26 - Solution - Update website content

Conclusion

27 - Where to go from here