A template to be used by middleman to generate static web sites, or quickly create a prototype for a future dynamic web site.
It features HTML5 Boilerplate, Haml, Sass, Compass, an alpha release of Susy-next (the next generation of Susy) Susy grid system,
I have simply taken an existing non-middleman temlate Simple-Site by James Croft and combined it with an excellent middleman starter template Amicus by Nathan Henderson.
During the conversion, I upgraded the applicassion.scss (from Simple-Site) to be compatible with the latest alpha release of susy next (converted use-grid to with-layout mixins )
I had also included the latest 3x version of Bootstrap-sass and generated bootstrap-custom.scss to allow to include only specific stylesheets
Take a look at screenshot.jpg to see how it looks -- it is essentialy a single page application layout template
The Susy-next grid system, as you know is a very powerful styling mechanism that allows a developer to define how the site should look depending on the given browser window size
I do not have currently the 'Susy-breakpoints' enabled to switch layouts in application.scss as it is done in Amicus. But will add that use case over time.
The bootstrap navigation menue is set to be responsive. As you change the screen size the menu changes to be more friendly for phone/tablet screens
Start by installing Bundler, if you don't already have it:
gem install bundler
gem install middleman
Then just download the latest source or if you prefer, clone the repository down to your local machine:
git clone http://github.com/vladp/middleman-Simple-Site.git my_new_project
Finally, cd my_new_project and do a bundle install --binstubs ./bin --path vendor/bundle to install the required gems
Use ./bin/middleman server -h '127.0.0.1' to do your live development and ./bin/middleman build to render your static file output to the /build/ directory.
For full Middleman documentation, visit the Middleman website.
Middleman now supports project templates. To use middleman-Simple-Site as a template, clone the Git repository into ~/.middleman, like so:
git clone http://github.com/vladp/middleman-Simple-Site.git ~/.middleman/middleman-Simple-Site
then use the new template argument for the middleman init command:
middleman init my_new_project --template=middleman-Simple-Site
This paragraph it taken verbatim from Amicus
The default Haml layout is based on HTML5 Boilerplate, and is fully commented. (Don't worry, those comments aren't rendered out to your build directory)
Susy is the default grid system.
An included Ruby helper method to generate image placeholders, powered by Holder.js.
Send me a message or submit an issue. Thanks!
Following the lead of HTML5 Boilerplate here...
Copyrights of Amicus [Amicus License] (https://github.com/nathos/amicus/blob/master/LICENSE.md)
[Simple-Site] (https://github.com/crofty/Simple-Site)
Major components:
- HTML5 Boilerplate: MIT license
- Normalize.css: MIT license
- Modernizr: MIT/BSD license
- jQuery: MIT/GPL license
- Susy: MIT license
- Bootstrap SASS: MIT license
Everything else:
- MIT license -- see LICENSE.md