How to Create a Blog for FREE - Part 1

How to Create a Blog for FREE - Part 1

Creating a Fast and SEO-Friendly Blog with Astro

Astro is an all-in-one web framework for building fast, content-focused websites. They provide many ready templates. https://astro.build/themes

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I filtered by blog and chose this one called Bookworm https://astro.build/themes/details/bookworm-light-astro

  1. Clone it to your local machine
  2. Create a new private git repository
  3. Push it to your repo
    git remote set-url origin new.repo.url
    git push
    
  4. Install dependencies & run it
    npm install
    npm run dev
    

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Great it should start to run in localhost.

It’s time to customize 👇

  1. Go to Canva.com and create a new logo (1160 x 200)

R Blog logo

  1. Change it with — public/images/logo.png
  2. Change your favicon.ico to the same place with a new image
  3. Remove unnecessary menu items
  4. Use BardAI to create privacy page content in .md format
  5. Change social media fields for the footer from ./src/config/social.json

You can start to write first content

I will share this medium post as the first content

By using Cloudflare you can buy a domain name and publish your blog page in minutes.

I hope it will be helpful for you

Best Regards!