smallworld

smallworld is a lightweight Astro theme for people who only want a simple blog and personal site. I built it after spending hours messing with other templates and their CSS, <div> elements, and NPM packages. The result is a minimal, responsive site that I think looks pretty good.

This theme uses Pico CSS in its SASS form to limit CSS output to the essentials.

Design principles

• Scale font sizes responsively.
• Write as little CSS as possible.
• Use as few classes as possible.
• Maximize the use of semantic HTML.
• Limit the number of installed NPM packages.
• Avoid anything that would go beyond static HTML.
• Don't go beyond basic Markdown.
• Don't just reinvent BearBlog.

If that sounds good to you, this theme might be for you!

Features:

• Styled with Pico CSS
• Unnecessary CSS features switched off
• Responsive element and font sizes
• Typescript type safety
• Blog collection with basic Markdown support
• Automatic RSS feed
• No client-side JavaScript
• No client-side cookies
• (Almost) no custom CSS