What’s going on, Internet? Way back in 2022 I wrote a guide on building a static site with 11ty and deploying it to Neocities. It’s been one of my most-read posts, but it’s also aged: Eleventy has moved to v3 with a brand new module system, the dev server changed, and my whole workflow has shifted away from GitHub toward Forgejo and Codeberg. So here’s the refresh. I haven’t hosted my own site on Neocities for years now, but it’s still home to a huge community of personal sites and homepages, especially folks in the 32-Bit Cafe, so this guide is still very much for them. This guide aims to help you create a homepage using the static site generator (SSG) 11ty, keep the code in version control, and deploy it to Neocities, first by hand, then automatically. The homepage that we are creating will take advantage of the Nunjucks templating language, allowing us to create a shared header, navigation and footer across all the pages on our homepage. We will be creating an about, links, and…
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