Set up a draft system in 11ty Now this and a few other sites I have are running on 11ty I have been meaning to add a way of marking a post as a draft while I am writing it - just in case I need to publish a short while getting an article ready. There are several complex explanations of how to do this out there...

Recently late one evening when I should have been going to sleep, I had an idea. I spent the next 30 minutes building and launching a website from scratch. OK, it's not a brilliant site but the fact I can spin a site up quickly got me thinking. Can I do this even quicker? And yes I can! The move to Eleventy I have...

I have recently changed the lastmod date in my xml site map to be accurate now that Google are wanting that. Part of what Google wanted was for the page to state the update date on it. I pulled this data from the posts front matter but because I had set an 11ty filter for the sitemap the output on the page was the...

Google's new policy has meant changes to the xml sitemap Google have recently got a little more particular about the last modified date in your xml sitemap following their decision to drop the ability to ping updates to thier endpoint.. In the post they make mention of the lastmod element and its need to be...

Just deployed a site using the 11ty image plugin and it is working well. I did have some issues with set up - wanted the hi-res images in a separate folder outside of src and public folders and acheived that by setting an external source - would be nice if this were in the base set up: let imageSrc =...

In February 2023 I discovered I had an issue with crawling a site after some changes. I like to fix things to make websites work properly so often go through several itterations of the code fixing things. The same issue cropped up again in June 2023 so I thought I had better post a Short about it to remind myself...

I have knocked up a 3D chassis for the Stanton Coach I am designing. I am on about v 3 of the coach bodywork at the moment and after a lot of thought around the chassis and how to create it including from kraft board, etched parts (which I may yet still do) and the 3D print option whihch on reflection seems the...

I have a couple of 11ty built sites that are auto deployed out to Cloudflare Pages. I normally prefer Netlify for the hosting but I do like to keep some eggs in other baskets. I updated a site yesterday and it kept failing the deploy to Cloudflare with the error stating that Node had to be at least version 14. I...

What is INP? INP means Interaction to Next Paint and will be part of the Core Web Vitals measurements from March 2024. Will INP affect my rankings? Probably not in most cases but it could be the tipping point between your page and another page being ranked higher in the Search Engine Results Pages so it should be...

Is there a viable alternative to Google Analytics? Yes, Fathom Analytics is a more than capable alternative to Google Analytics and is from a small independent team in Canada. Like most people who build websites I have been using Google Analytics for many years. The change to GA4 this year though is significant....

Do we need a neck tag in html? The neck tag doesn't exists in html but if it did I have a use case for it. Dave Smart made a suggestion on Mastodon: <head>, <body> but no <neck>? Where do I put the <meta name="trachea" > tag. Madness. I thought about this for a while and realised that there is a use case. Sometimes...

What is myrm.club? myrm.club is a new way to display your model railway layouts so that people can find them quickly. I have created a page for each of my layouts and an overall page for Simon's Narrow Gauge Model Railway Layouts. It is a model railway showcase so will not be updated very often and I will tend to...