Gatsby Starter Portfolio: Emilia

A portfolio starter for Gatsby. The target audience are designers and photographers.

Focus on big images
Dark theme
Image grid powered by CSS Grid
Page Transitions & Animations

Why?

If you want to quickly bootstrap a design/photography portfolio or use it as a foundation for your personal site the gatsby-starter-portfolio are a perfect fit for you! The project's goal is to offer minimalistic and fast websites.

I hope you like my starters and create something awesome! To see some of my work you can visit my website or support me on Patreon to get some neat rewards (4K images, project files, tutorial insights). Every pledge on Patreon helps me creating more free starters!

Also check out the other gatsby-starter-portfolio:

Check out the Gatsby Starter Portfolio Overview!

Features

Configurable
- Use the site.js to easily change the most important information
- Use the theme.js to configure your CSS
Projects in MDX (gatsby-mdx)
Image Grid with CSS Grid
Page transitions & animations with react-spring
HeroPatterns Header
Styled Components
Google Analytics Support
SEO
- Sitemap
- Schema.org JSONLD
- OpenGraph Tags
- Twitter Tags
Offline Support
WebApp Manifest Support
Responsive images
- The right image size for every screen size
- Image Lazy-Loading
- WebP Support

Getting Started

Check your development environment! You'll need Node.js, the Gatsby CLI and node-gyp installed. The official Gatsby website also lists two articles regarding this topic:

To copy and install this starter run this command (with "project-name" being the name of your folder you wish to install it in):

gatsby new project-name https://github.com/LekoArts/gatsby-starter-portfolio-emilia
cd project-name
npm run dev

Adding a new project

Create a new folder in content/projects
Create a new MDX file, add the frontmatter (use the same date format)
Optional: Add text under the frontmatter (will be placed before the images)
Add your images in the folder (they will automatically be placed in the document). Format: JPG/PNG/TIF/WEBP

If you're still unsure have a look at the already existing examples.

Adding new features/plugins

You can add other features by having a look at the official plugins page

Building your site

npm run build

Copy the content of the public folder to your webhost or use a website like Netlify which automates that for you.

Configuration

You can configure your setup in config/site.js:

module.exports = {
  pathPrefix: '/', // Prefix for all links. If you deploy your site to example.com/portfolio your pathPrefix should be "portfolio"

  siteTitle: 'Emilia', // Navigation and Site Title
  siteTitleAlt: 'Emilia - Gatsby Starter Portfolio', // Alternative Site title for SEO
  siteTitleShort: 'Emilia', // short_name for manifest
  siteHeadline: 'Publishing & Creating stunning photos', // Headline for schema.org JSONLD
  siteUrl: 'https://emilia.lekoarts.de', // Domain of your site. No trailing slash!
  siteLanguage: 'en', // Language Tag on <html> element
  siteLogo: '/logos/logo.png', // Used for SEO and manifest
  siteDescription: 'Dark One-Page portfolio with cards & detailed project views',
  author: 'LekoArts', // Author for schema.org JSONLD

  // siteFBAppID: '123456789', // Facebook App ID - Optional
  userTwitter: '@emilia', // Twitter Username
  ogSiteName: 'emilia', // Facebook Site Name
  ogLanguage: 'en_US', // og:language
  googleAnalyticsID: 'UA-12345689-1',

  // Manifest and Progress color
  themeColor: '#3498DB',
  backgroundColor: '#2b2e3c',

  // Your information
  avatar: '/logos/lekoarts.png',
  name: 'LekoArts',
  location: 'Germany'
}

You can also configure the styling by editing the config/theme.js file:

// You can grab your own pattern here:
// http://www.heropatterns.com/

module.exports = {
  bgPattern: `data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg width='52' height='26' viewBox='0 0 52 26' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%3E%3Cg fill='none' fill-rule='evenodd'%3E%3Cg fill='%2316191f' fill-opacity='0.8'%3E%3Cpath d='M10 10c0-2.21-1.79-4-4-4-3.314 0-6-2.686-6-6h2c0 2.21 1.79 4 4 4 3.314 0 6 2.686 6 6 0 2.21 1.79 4 4 4 3.314 0 6 2.686 6 6 0 2.21 1.79 4 4 4v2c-3.314 0-6-2.686-6-6 0-2.21-1.79-4-4-4-3.314 0-6-2.686-6-6zm25.464-1.95l8.486 8.486-1.414 1.414-8.486-8.486 1.414-1.414z' /%3E%3C/g%3E%3C/g%3E%3C/svg%3E`,
  colors: {
    bg: '#16191f',
    color: 'white',
    dark_bg: 'black',
    secondary: '#b6b6b6',
    link: '#328bff',
    linkHover: '#79a8ff',
  },
  maxWidths: {
    general: '1600px',
    project: 1600,
  },
  gridColumns: 2, // Number of columns of the grid on the index page
  contentPadding: '1.0875rem',
  breakpoints: {
    xs: '400px',
    s: '600px',
    m: '900px',
    l: '1200px',
  },
}

Attention: You also need to edit static/robots.txt to include your domain!

a-bishop/painting-portfolio