Guides

Lesson Guides Cloudflare 101: set up the free plan, step by step Swap your nameservers to Cloudflare, turn on the orange cloud for your website records and set SSL to Full (strict). You get free speed, SSL and protection. October 7, 2026 · 11 min read

Lesson Guides Deployer, the PHP deployment tool: get started Deployer puts PHP sites live with no downtime and rolls back with one command. Install it, write a deploy.php, deploy a Laravel or WordPress site and roll back. March 21, 2020 · 3 min read

Lesson Guides MAMP: set up a local site with a virtual host Give each local project its own address, like mysite.test, in MAMP on a Mac. I turn on virtual hosts, add the site, map the name in /etc/hosts and restart. September 6, 2019 · 3 min read

Lesson Guides Shopify theme development: get started with Shopify CLI Build Shopify themes on your own computer with Shopify CLI. I install it, start from the Skeleton theme, preview with theme dev, then push and pull. January 16, 2019 · 4 min read

Lesson Guides Set up Git on your server and deploy with a push Install Git on a Linux server, connect with SSH keys, and deploy with git push. I use a bare repository and a hook, or let the server pull from GitHub or GitLab. February 22, 2017 · 3 min read