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11ty Cover Theme

A hopefully stylish 11ty minor update to the common cover card theme type. This 11ty theme is based on:

  1. Front Cover Jekyll Theme by @dashingcode
  2. @epidrome's cover-card Fork of Front Cover Jekyll Theme by @epidrome
  3. Eleventy Base Blog Starter Project

Credits

  1. Adam DJ Brett
  2. Creative by Dre

Image Credits

  • Profile Avatar by This Person Does Not Exist
  • Background photo NASA/JPL-Caltech, October 30, 2013

Setup

eleventy.config.js

in eleventy.config.js go to metadata and personalize lines 64-73. Keep it short and simple

Metadata.js

the majority of the personalization changes you will need to make will be to metadata.js

Font Awesome

Once you have finished your modifications to metadata.js visit Font Awesome and

  1. create a free account
  2. create a free or paid Font Kit
  3. Once you have created your font kit paste the code to base.njk layout line 38

humans.njk

Now update humans.njk and give credit to all of the folks who have helepd to make your site an dlet everyone know that a real human built your site and not AI.

Publication

Once you have completed all of these steps now you are ready to publish your site to Cloudflare Pages, Github Pages, Netlify, Vercel, Surge, Render, or your prefered static site hosting provider.