Vredeburg

A lightweight starter for publishing a personal blog with Eleventy, designed for developers who want a clean baseline they can adapt to their own content and styling. It gives you a working blog structure with a typography-focused presentation, so posts read well without a lot of custom CSS work up front. The project uses Tailwind CSS for styling and includes a small, practical configuration approach for common site metadata. If you’re comfortable editing templates and data files, this is a straightforward foundation for a simple, static blog. It’s also a good fit when you want an uncluttered setup that you can extend rather than a feature-heavy theme.

What's included

A blog starter project scaffolded for Eleventy
A responsive blog layout that adapts across common screen sizes
Typography-focused post styling via a configured typography plugin
A site data setup for editing title, description, author, and navigation items
A development workflow with watch/serve tasks for iterative editing
A production build pipeline that outputs a static site
A debug build mode to help troubleshoot Eleventy behavior

Ideal for

Personal blogs and writing-focused websites
Developer blogs and changelog-style posts
Minimal marketing sites with an attached blog
Jamstack-style static sites that you want to host anywhere
Learning or prototyping Eleventy projects with a real layout baseline

Customization

Common site information is centralized in data files, making it easy to swap out author details, navigation labels, and other metadata without hunting through templates. Styling is set up around a readable “prose” content area, so you can adjust typography and spacing in one place while keeping posts consistent.