St Albans Good Neighbour Society

A website for a local charity organisation: http://sagns.org

Maintaining this site

Maintaining this site will require either content management or code development. Most updates should only need to performed as content management.

Content Management

The content for the site is updatable without the need to write code thanks to a simple CMS (content management system) provided by NetlifyCMS.

Code development

This site is a static web site generated by Eleventy.

Project bootstrapping

To build this site you should first checkout this git repository, and then ensure that you have the following prerequisites:

Node
Yarn

With these prerequisites installed, you can install all other dependencies with:

yarn

You can start a watcher task to automatically compile and serve the site locally with yarn start.

A build task outputs as deployable site asset via the command yarn run build. This is the task triggered automatically on the Netlify hosting environment.

Deployment

Code and content deployments are performed via git commits to this repository. Any commit pushes to the master branch of this repository will trigger an automatic build and deployment by Netlify.

Builds typically take a few seconds and updates should usually be visible in the live site within a minute of making the change.

Hosting

The live site is hosted on Netlify as a static web site and visible online at https://sagns.netlify.com and on its production domain at https://sagns.org

Feature branches can be deployed on Netlify for testing. Any git branch pushed to this repository will become available for testing at https://{BRANCH-NAME}--sagns.netlify.com

Source code for the site is hosted on Github at https://github.com/philhawksworth/sagns.org