14 posts by Juha-Matti Santala
How I teach Eleventy from scratch
I love how in Eleventy, you can build a site step-by-step and at each small step, have a functional website. In this post, I describe a workshop structure I’ve used lately to teach a few of my friends how to build a static site with Eleventy.
Oct 6, 2024
by Juha-Matti Santala (14 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: BloggingConfigurationFiltersGetting StartedHow to...Plugins
Recap of 11ty International Symposium on Making Web Sites Real Good
Last week, the first 11ty Conference, also known as the 11ty International Symposium on Making Web Sites Real Good, took place and it blew my mind. Here are the best parts, which is pretty much everything.
May 15, 2024
by Juha-Matti Santala (14 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: 11ty Conference 2024
index.md is a valid Eleventy project
Building website projects from the scratch with Eleventy is a delightful process in my experience because in the beginning, all you need is index.md and you can then customise and add on top of it as much as you like.
Apr 13, 2024
by Juha-Matti Santala (14 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: Getting StartedWhy Eleventy?
Search, Webmentions and microformats
I’ve made some updates on my website - let’s talk about them. I added a search functionality with Pagefind, Webmention support both directions and microformats to my blog posts.
Feb 28, 2024
by Juha-Matti Santala (14 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: How to...SearchWebmentions
THE Eleventy Meetup Feb 20th
We had a lovely meetup with the Eleventy community. I talked about building meetup community sites utilizing Global Data Files and Robb talked about how he builds his website with Eleventy, pulling data in from various sources.
Feb 26, 2024
Building a meetup community site using Global Data Files
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Feb 20, 2024
by Juha-Matti Santala (14 posts)
Categories: CMSGlobal DataHow to...
Community websites with Eleventy
With Eleventy’s data files, I’ve come up with a good setup to build landing pages for communities that organize events.
Jan 24, 2024
by Juha-Matti Santala (14 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: Data CascadeFiltersGlobal DataHow to...
Website rewrite and switching to Notion as CMS
This website served me well for almost 5 years with minor improvements, tweaks and hacks. Now, it was time for a total rewrite and upgrading my stack and tools.
Aug 22, 2023
by Juha-Matti Santala (14 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: Remote DataHow to...
Blog comments via Mastodon
After half a year of pondering, I finally wrote a bit of code to add comments to my blog via Mastodon replies.
Jul 26, 2023
by Juha-Matti Santala (14 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: How to...Social Media
CAUTION
The posts below were published before the release of Eleventy v1.0.0 (Jan 9, 2022). Information in these posts may be out of date. The current stable release is 2.0.1. Eleventy v3.0 is currently under development and available for testing.
CAUTION
The posts below were published before the release of Eleventy v2.0.0 (Feb 8, 2023). Information in these posts may be out of date. The current stable release is 2.0.1. Eleventy v3.0 is currently under development and available for testing.
Blog post filter with Netlify Functions
I built my first ever serverless feature to add tag filtering to my blog listing. Here's how I integrated that to my Ghost & Eleventy setup with Netlify Functions.
Jul 28, 2021
by Juha-Matti Santala (14 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: FiltersHow to...ServerlessRemote Data
Building a website with a static site generator, part 3: Domain, Analytics and Forms
Once your website is up and running, it's time to get a professional looking domain, think about analytics and collect data with forms.
Mar 25, 2020
by Juha-Matti Santala (14 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: Getting StartedBloggingConfiguration
Building a website with a static site generator, part 2: Eleventy
In this post, we're gonna take a deeper look into Eleventy which takes care of building the website by combining layout templates with blog post data from Markdown files.
Mar 18, 2020
by Juha-Matti Santala (14 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: Getting StartedGlobal DataLayoutsBlogging
Building a website with a static site generator, part 1: Setup
In this blog series, we will build a static website using Eleventy, NetlifyCMS, GitHub and Netlify. In the first post, we set everything up and deploy a template page to make sure everything works.
Mar 11, 2020
by Juha-Matti Santala (14 posts) · Website & RSS feed
Categories: Getting StartedDeploymentCMSBlogging
How my site is built with Eleventy + Ghost
This website is run with Eleventy, using Markdown and Ghost CMS for blog posts. I've iterated in a couple of ways to build the CMS integration.
Mar 6, 2020