website_modern_business_archetype

This is kickoff project archetype for website creation. It is based on the Modern Business full website Bootstrap theme.

Usage

Prerequisites

You must have Node.js and the kickoff utility installed.

Create a new project

You can create a new project with the following command:

kickoff -s tombenke/website_modern_business_archetype -d new_project_name

The utility will download the project template from GitHub, then asks some qouestions, that you may give, or simple press Enter in case you are satisfied with the default answers.

You are generating a single page website using the startbootstrap-creative template.

? The name of the project: mysite
? The short description of the project: This is my single page website.
? The contact email address: contact@mydomain.com
? The contact phone number: (+??) ?????-???
? The full name of the author: Anonymous
? The email address of the author: anonymous@some-domain.com
? The github account (username) of the author: anonymous
? The title of the page: My Site
? The Home Heading text: The Home-Heading above the UVP
? The Unique Value Proposition: This is the UVP, you can define it later
Converting package.json as Handlebars template
Converting src/parameters.yml as Handlebars template

After all the questions answered, the project will be generated. The project has the following structure:

├── dist
└── src
    ├── css
    ├── img
    │   └── portfolio
    ├── js
    ├── less
    ├── md
    ├── partials
    └── templates

The src folder contains the source files. The additional vendor files will be copied from the corresponding node modules after installation. The results will arrive into the dist folder.

The src/templates folder contains mustache templates, that may include files from the src/partials folder. The src/md folder may contain markdown format files, that will be converted to HTML format and will be placed into the partials folder so page templates can be written to envelop these contents.

The src/img folder contains the sample images, that you should replace with your own photos. The src/less folder contains the less files, that you may customize. Especially the is important, src/less/variables.less which contains the most relevant syling parameters.

Create and modify the content and the styles

You can do the following steps:

1. Install the npm modules required by the newly generated application:

   cd new_project_name
   npm install
   

2. Edit the template and the parameter files according to your needs:

   • src/templates/index.html
   • src/parameters.yml

3. Change the images under the src/img folder.

4. Customize the portfolio page (overwrite the src/templates/portfolio.html with one of the src/templates/portfolio-?-col.html files).

5. Customize blog-home page (overwrite the src/templates/blog-home.html with one of the src/templates/blog-home-?.html files).

6. Customize the services format in the index.html page (remove the unwanted parts).

7. To create the dist package, run either:

   npm run build
   

   or

   npm run watch
   

The build process happens via the gulp utility. If you change the project structure, you may also modify the gulpfile.js as well. The npm run watch uses the browser-sync utility, that starts a server too. With this command, you can immediately view the results in a browser, that will be automatically refreshed, in case you modify any of the source content, can be found under the src directory.

Deploy the final results

The final results will be written into the dist folder. You can copy the whole content to the final place of deployment when you are ready.

References

• Modern Business Bootstrap theme
• browser-sync
• gulp-markdown
• gulp-mustache
• mustache
• markdown
• The less CSS pre-processor
• kickoff