Gatsby Starter Portfolio: Emma

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

Full-width grid-layout
Large images
Light theme

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).

Also check out the other gatsby-starter-portfolio:

gatsby-starter-portfolio-emilia

Features

Configurable
- Use the SiteConfig.js to easily change the most important information
- Easily change the font
Automatic colors for your projects (with the help of vibrant.js)
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

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-emma
npm run dev

Adding a new project

Create a new folder in content/projects with 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.

Adding new features/plugins

You can add other features by having a look at the offical 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/SiteConfig:

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://embalmer-glues-43220.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',
  
  siteFBAppID: '123456789', // Facebook App ID
  userTwitter: 'emma', // Twitter Username
  ogSiteName: 'emma', // Facebook Site Name
  googleAnalyticsID: 'UA-12345689-1',
  copyright: 'Copyright © 2017. All rights reserved. Pictures by Unsplash.', // Copyright in the footer of the site
  
  // You can translate these three words into your language if you want. They'll be shown on the project page header
  client: 'Client',
  date: 'Date',
  service: 'Service',

  // Date format used in your project header
  // More information here: https://date-fns.org/v1.29.0/docs/format
  dateFormat: 'DD.MM.YYYY',
  
  // Manifest and Progress color
  themeColor: '#3498DB',
  backgroundColor: '#2b2e3c',
  
  // Settings for typography.js
  headerFontFamily: 'Merriweather',
  bodyFontFamily: 'Roboto',
  baseFontSize: '16px'
}

You can also configure the styling of the site by editing the SCSS variables in config/_variables.scss:

// --------------
// Configuration
// --------------

// Configure your colors here

$brand-primary: #cf1993;
$brand-secondary: #7b8acc;
$grey: #252525;
$black: #000000;

// Configure your grid here
// You don't need to change it!

$content-width: 100vw;
$gutter: 0px;
$columns: 3;

$row-size: calc( (#{$content-width} - #{$gutter} * (#{$columns} - 1)) / #{$columns} );

// Configure the max-width of your containers here
// Try to keep it in sync with maxWidth of `gatsby-remark-images`

$container: 100rem;
$container-text: 55rem; // Longer texts should have a smaller max-width to improve readability

// Responsive Typography
// You can set your min and max font-size here
// More information: https://www.rucksackcss.org/docs/#responsive-type

html {
    font-size: responsive 12px 16px;
    font-range: 420px 1280px;
}

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

Automatic Colors

By default the hover overlay of the grid image and the header on the project page automatically choose its color by using react-palette. The plugin chooses the vibrant color of the image and applies it as the background-color for the hover overlay and header background. If you don't want that behavior you can delete the <Palette /> component both from pages/index.jsx and templates/project.jsx.

Credits

Inspired by gatsby-advanced-starter

karlcode / Client-JoshChase