Noel.fun

I created this website for myself a couple of years ago so that I had an excuse to try out a static site generator (SSG) called Eleventy.

URL: noel.fun
Created: ~ April 2020
Built with: Eleventy (SSG) and Netlify CMS
Languages used: HTML (Nunjucks), CSS (SCSS), vanilla Javascript

The story behind this website is written in the footer of the site as well, but here's the short version:

I love fun facts. Or, "love" is a strong word, I like fun facts. Perhaps not more than the average person, but enough so that I've become the "fun fact guy" among my friends.

After somebody called me out on it I told them, jokingly, that I would start a blog where I wrote down all the fun facts I knew. So I did. I finally had an excuse to try out a static site generator called Eleventy (11ty).

And this is the result of that.

A screenshot of the website. Notice the theme-switcher at the top.

One Page Love-award

A guy I've been following for a while, Ron Hope, has this website where he collects and showcases his favorite one-pagers, meaning websites that only have one page, called onepagelove.com.

I always visit his site when I need inspiration, so when I began building this I aimed to create a one-pager, and hopefully share the site with him through his submission program. If I thought it ended up nice enough, of course.

And that's what happened. He liked the site, showcased it and sent me a diploma. Also, sites that do recieve this award gets a SVG ribbon they can show off, which I shamelessly do.