Tagged “blog”

I was delighted to discover that my talented colleague Anda has her own website and uses it to write articles like this! This one is obviously pretty relevant to me too, given that I work on the same team.

I particularly liked the fifth lesson – “You are an integral part of the company”. This is an aspect of Design System work that I care about because it’s important to me to work on impactful things that get into a lot of users’ hands.

Here are my current go-to resources when building a new site using Eleventy (11ty).

Build an Eleventy site from scratch by Stephanie Eckles. As the name suggests, this is for starting from a blank canvas. It includes a really simple and effective way of setting up a Sass watch-and-build pipeline that runs alongside that of Eleventy, using only package.json scripts rather than a bundler.

Eleventy Base Blog from 11ty. If rather than a blank canvas you want a boilerplate that includes navigation, a blog, an RSS feed and prism CSS for code block styling (among other things) then this is a great option. Of course, you can also just cherry-pick the relevant code you need, as I often do.

Eleventy Navigation Plugin. This allows you to set a page or post as a navigation item. It handily supports ordering and hierarchical nesting (for subnavigation). You can then render out your navigation from a layout in a one-liner or in a custom manner.

Eleventy Cache Assets Plugin. This is really handy for caching fetched data so as not to exceed API limits or do undue work on every build.

11ty Netlify Jumpstart is another from Stephanie Eckles but this time a “quick-start boilerplate” rather than blank canvas. It includes a minimal Sass framework, generated sitemap, RSS feed and social share preview images. The About page it generates contains lots of useful info on its features.

forestry.io settings for 11ty Base Blog and forestry.io settings for Hylia (Andy Bell’s 11ty starter)

Add Netlify CMS to an 11ty-based website

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More to follow…

A fantastic so-called “Scroll Story” from Robin Rendle. In his own words it’s “an elaborate blog post where I rant about a thing” however given the beautiful typography, layout and illustrations on show I think he’s selling it a little short!

The content of this “story” is pretty interesting – Robin laments the fact that web authors often need newsletters, or to “spam social media” in order to publicise articles on their websites, because most people don’t use RSS (awareness is too low and barriers to entry too great).

However it’s the story’s design and technical implementation which really caught my eye.

Robin does some really cool stuff with the CSS scroll-snap-type property and also explains some steps he had to take to tame differing implementations of height:100vh across browsers.