My band has a website. I made it using 1990s technology. And 2K20s technology. And I think it's pretty nice.

In today's episode, I'll cover the @EleventyVideo static site generator, and how I adapted a design made on vintage hardware (using AOLPress on Windows 95!) to a modern workflow.

Important links mentioned in the video:
🎈 Eleventy (or 11ty as the cool kids call it): https://www.11ty.dev/
🎉 Sophia Brandt wrote up a helpful article about deploying to GitHub Pages with Eleventy: https://www.rockyourcode.com/how-to-deploy-eleventy-to-github-pages-with-github-actions/
🖥️ Homestar Runner's "Back to a Website" toon (which may have inspired this video): https://homestarrunner.com/toons/backtoawebsite

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Chapters:
0:00 I say "greetings" and explain why I like static sites
2:41 What is a static site generator anyway?
4:13 About my website (thestopbits.net)
6:01 Modding the Eleventy template
9:14 Adding posts to Eleventy
10:04 I talk too long about the modern web

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Veronica Explains

A developer shares their experience building a 90s-style website for their band using Eleventy, a modern static site generator. The post contrasts the simplicity of static sites with the complexity of modern dynamic websites, explaining how Eleventy converts Markdown files into HTML while maintaining the nostalgic aesthetic of early web design. The author demonstrates how to set up Eleventy with the base blog starter, customize templates to achieve a retro look, and deploy the site with modern features like RSS feeds and clean URLs.

The modern web sucks. My band's website doesn't.

<p>Although I am a fan of JAMstack, going that oldschool ain’t my cup of tea. I am currently using a drag’n’drop static website generator based on svelte, meaning I can have reusable components and all the svelte magic in a designer friendly package. Sure; it won’t run on 10 year old browsers without polyfills, but who cares?</p>
