A portfolio starter for Gatsby. The target audience are designers and photographers.
- Full-width grid-layout
- Large images
- Light theme
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!
- Gatsby v2.0.0
- Configurable
- Use the website.js to easily change the most important information
- Easily change the font
- Random colors for your covers and project views
- Uses Emotion for styling
- Projects in Markdown
- Google Analytics Support
- SEO
- Sitemap
- Schema.org JSONLD
- OpenGraph Tags
- Twitter Tags
- Offline Support
- WebApp Manifest Support
- Typography.js
- Responsive images
- The right image size for every screen size
- Traced SVG loading (lazy-loading)
- WebP support
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-emma
npm run dev
- Create a new folder in
content/projectswith the current date (Format: YYYY-MM-DD) - Create a new markdown file, add the frontmatter (use the same date format)
- Add an image and reference it in your frontmatter as
cover - Write your content below the frontmatter
If you're still unsure have a look at the already existing examples.
You can add other features by having a look at the offical plugins page
npm run build
Copy the content of the public folder to your webhost or use a website like Netlify which automates that for you.
You can configure your setup in config/website.js:
module.exports = {
pathPrefix: '/', // Prefix for all links. If you deploy your site to example.com/portfolio your pathPrefix should be "portfolio"
siteTitle: 'Emma', // Navigation and Site Title
siteTitleAlt: 'Emma - Gatsby Starter Portfolio', // Alternative Site title for SEO
siteUrl: 'https://portfolio-emma.netlify.com', // Domain of your site. No trailing slash!
siteLanguage: 'en', // Language Tag on <html> element
siteLogo: '/logos/logo-1024.png', // Used for SEO and manifest
siteDescription: 'Minimalistic bright portfolio with full-width grid and large images',
author: 'LekoArts', // Author for schemaORGJSONLD
// siteFBAppID: '123456789', // Facebook App ID - Optional
userTwitter: '@emma', // Twitter Username
ogSiteName: 'emma', // Facebook Site Name
ogLanguage: 'en_US',
googleAnalyticsID: 'UA-12345689-1',
// Manifest and Progress color
themeColor: '#3498DB',
backgroundColor: '#2b2e3c',
// Settings for typography.jsx
headerFontFamily: 'Merriweather',
bodyFontFamily: 'Roboto',
baseFontSize: '16px',
};You can also configure the styling of the site by editing the theme variables in config/theme.js. overlay are the colors that get randomly selected for the Index page and the project detail view.
import { darken } from 'polished';
const brand = {
primary: '#cf1993',
secondary: '#7b8acc',
};
const colors = {
grey: '#25252',
black: '#000',
bg_color: '#f3f3f3',
body_color: '#222',
link_color: brand.primary,
link_color_hover: `${darken(0.15, brand.primary)}`,
};
export const overlay = ['#f76262', '#216583', '#65c0ba', '#35477d', '#6c5b7b', '#203541', '#9951ff', '#480032'];
const theme = {
brand,
colors,
breakpoints: {
xs: '400px',
s: '600px',
m: '900px',
l: '1200px',
},
container: {
base: '100rem',
text: '55rem',
},
spacer: {
horizontal: '2rem',
vertical: '3rem',
},
};
export default theme;Attention: You also need to edit static/robots.txt to include your domain!