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+# Eleventy Not So Minimal Blog Starter
+
+A not so minimal starter for building a website + blog using the Eleventy static site generator.
+
+This eleventy starter already includes:
+- Basic site navigation with eleventy-navigation
+- Blog categories & category based navigation
+- Image optimisation with Eleventy-img
+- SVG icons with svg-icon-sprite
+- SEO (sitemap, metadata)
+- Luxon for handling dates & times
+- A few basic Eleventy configurations, filters and shortcodes
+- Nunjucks templates
+- Sass & the necessary scripts to compile Sass
+
+If the listed setup is not what you require, you might want to check out one of the many other Eleveny starters, which can be found here.
+
+## Getting Started
+
+### 1. Clone this Repository
+
+```
+git clone https://github.com/mangamaui/eleventy-not-so-minimal-blog-starter.git your-blog-name
+```
+
+
+### 2. Navigate to the directory
+
+```
+cd your-blog-name
+```
+
+
+### 3. Install dependencies
+
+```
+npm install
+```
+
+### 4. Edit _data/metadata.json
+
+### 5. Run Eleventy
+
+```
+npx eleventy
+```
+
+Or build and host locally for local development
+```
+npx eleventy --serve
+```
+
+Or build automatically when a template changes:
+```
+npx eleventy --watch
+```
+
+Or in debug mode:
+```
+DEBUG=* npx eleventy
+```