DEV Community

Alex Carpenter
Alex Carpenter

Posted on

3 1

Back to static

Towards the beginning of the year I had migrated my personal site setup from Jekyll over to Craft CMS.

Around that time I was interested in improving my Craft CMS development skills, so it made sense to use my website as a playground to learn.

Since then, I have learned a lot and made a few screencasts along the way. That time spent learning and experimenting has had a big influence on how I approach new Craft CMS builds these days, success!

Lately I have been feeling the itch to get back to something simpler and lighter. I had seen Zach Leatherman had released Eleventy recently, which is an alternative to Jekyll built on Javascript.

After roughly a week of setup, design/development and content migration, I have a new site setup. I really like the flexibity 11ty offers in comparision to my previous Jekyll build. 11ty manages my content and templates and I bring my own styling and scripting layers.

Feel free to take a peak at the source.


This post was originally featured on my website.

Billboard image

The fastest way to detect downtimes

Join Vercel, CrowdStrike, and thousands of other teams that trust Checkly to streamline monitoring.

Get started now

Top comments (0)

Imagine monitoring actually built for developers

Billboard image

Join Vercel, CrowdStrike, and thousands of other teams that trust Checkly to streamline monitor creation and configuration with Monitoring as Code.

Start Monitoring

👋 Kindness is contagious

Dive into an ocean of knowledge with this thought-provoking post, revered deeply within the supportive DEV Community. Developers of all levels are welcome to join and enhance our collective intelligence.

Saying a simple "thank you" can brighten someone's day. Share your gratitude in the comments below!

On DEV, sharing ideas eases our path and fortifies our community connections. Found this helpful? Sending a quick thanks to the author can be profoundly valued.

Okay