btwelch / middleman-static-site-base

My Middleman >> Amazon S3 static site recipe, complete with dynamically-generated navigation and all the customizations to make things blazingly-fast.

Base is a starter-site for building Middleman-based web pages. It is pre-configured to be deployed to Amazon S3 for static hosting. It's tricked-out with all the niceties that make for an optimized site, plus some extras I threw in to make content-generation the focal-point of your time. Here's what is in store:

• Dynamic navigation at the folder-level.
• Baked-in sitemap for SEO.
• Metadata controls

Example metadata page header:

changefreq: "weekly" priority: 1.0 menu_title: "Home" sitemap_exclude: false

changefreq - Added to the sitemap as the change frequency for the page. Recommend 'weekly' or 'monthly' unless your pages are updated all the time.

priority - Added to the sitemap. A hint to Google to tell it which pages are the most important to you assuming Google will only index so much of your site.

menu_title - Allows you to specify what your anchor text is going to be in your navigational/menu links.

sitemap_exclude - Some content isn't ready for prime-time. Set this to false if you don't want under-construction pages to appear either in the sitemap or in your navigation/menus.

Thanks for reading... and enjoy!