I’ve kind of wanted to move my site to flat-file static framework for a while. I like writing in plain text in my text editor; I like operating in files and directories. I liked Wordpress for a good long while, but when I return to my site’s back-end to post once every six months, I discover it’s been redesigned again and I have less and less idea about what things there mean. (The move to blocks, and even post formats, passed me by.) So after looking around at some different options, and in particular looking at
I like hypertext, and feel there it is an underused medium (!). I think the the small web should embrace hypertext.
In this vein, and having been inspired by Maggie Appleton’s site, I read through her list of tools for creating online digital gardens, and there found a reference to Eleventy, which had caught my eye previously.
I’ve not been a web developer in any professional capacity in many years, so I would describe getting an Eleventy instance set up and looking the way I like it as a “fun challenge”. I found posts by Matt Northam, this step-by-step guide and the official docs to be helpful.