Stan Lemon's Website

Personal website and blog of Stan Lemon, built with Eleventy.

🌐 Live Site: https://stanlemon.com

Quick Start

Prerequisites

• Node.js 22.20.0 (see .nvmrc)
• npm

Development

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Start development server (http://localhost:3000)
npm run serve

Build

# Full production build
npm run build

Writing Posts

Create a new markdown file in _posts/YYYY/YYYY-MM-DD-title.md:

---
layout: post
title: Your Post Title
date: YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM-ZZ:ZZ
categories:
  - Category Name
permalink: /YYYY/MM/DD/post-title/
metadata:
  description: SEO description
  keywords: comma, separated, keywords
---

Your post introduction goes here...

<!-- excerpt -->

The rest of your post content...

## Add Images

{% image "./assets/image.jpg", "Alt text description" %}

Project Structure

• _posts/ - Blog posts organized by year
• _includes/ - Liquid templates and layouts
• _data/ - Global site data
• assets/ - Static assets (images, etc.)
• css/ - Less stylesheets
• eleventy.config.js - Build configuration (ESM)

Key Features

• 📱 Responsive design
• 🖼️ Automatic image optimization (WebP + JPEG)
• 📝 Markdown with Liquid templating
• 🎨 Less CSS preprocessing
• 🔍 SEO optimized with meta tags and sitemap
• 📡 RSS feed
• 💻 Syntax highlighting for code
• 📌 Pinned posts on homepage
• 📦 Native ES modules ("type": "module") across custom build logic

Deployment

The site automatically deploys to GitHub Pages when changes are pushed to the master branch.

Documentation

For technical details, architecture, and development best practices, see CLAUDE.md.

License

MIT - See LICENSE if present.

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Repository: github.com/stanlemon/stanlemon.github.com