About

Bridgetown Rise

This (opiniated) Bridgetown starter template is based on Andy Bell’s talk ‘Be the browser’s mentor, not its micromanager’ and it’s companion website buildexcellentwebsit.es, as well as Lene Saile’s Eleventy Excellent starter template.

It uses progressive enhancement, CSS layout, fluid type & spacing, as well as modern CSS features.

Preview

Live Demo

Table of Contents

• Bridgetown Rise
• Preview
• Table of Contents
• Features
• TODO

Features

• Built with Bridgetown.
• RedHat variable typeface, locally served.
• Justin Ribeiro’s lite-youtube plugin.
• Slightlyoff’s lite-vimeo plugin.
• Bridgetown SEO Tag plugin for better SEO.
• Opens external links and PDFs in a new window. Thanks to Joost van der Schee from JekyllCodex.
• Favicon generated with Favicon.io
• Blog post placeholder image from Placehold.co
• Sitemap plugin for better SEO.
• Host on Render, just edit the render.yaml file in site root.

TODO

• Accessible, responsive and robust main navigation.
• SEO basics.
• Sitemap.
• Activate/load lite-youtube/vimeo only with youtube/vimeo: true in front-matter.
• Inline SVG files.
• Open external links in a new tab/window.
• Create basic components/layouts.