Cory LaViska Tutorials

Cory LaViska is the founder of A Beautiful Site, LLC, a small development studio in New Hampshire. He’s responsible for Shoelace and Surreal CMS, as well as a handful of open source projects on GitHub.

• By Cory LaViskaSeptember 29, 2020

  Shoelace 2.0: A Forward-thinking Library of Web Components

  A few years ago, I released a lightweight alternative to Bootstrap affectionately named Shoelace. Shoelace was small and fast because of its minimal design and pure CSS approach to styling. It used CSS custom properties extensively to enable customizations, even when loaded via...

• By Cory LaViskaJuly 31, 2017

  Shoelace.css: A Back to the Basics CSS Starter Kit

  CSS frameworks such as Bootstrap and Semantic UI have become an essential part of web design. They provide the necessary resets, default styles, and components that save us hours and hours of work. Most CSS frameworks are built using preprocessors such as Less or Sass, which is...

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• By Cory LaViskaMarch 12, 2014

  Hosting a Website on Amazon S3

  Everyone knows that Amazon S3 is great for storing files. It's fast, inexpensive, and easy to setup. What you may not realize is that you can also host static websites on this robust platform. What is a static website? In short, it's a website comprised of...