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2. Creating Structure

Alex Libby1  
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Belper, Derbyshire, UK
 

With our initial site set up, it’s time to start adding content!

By default, Eleventy uses Markdown files to structure content on a site; throughout this chapter, I will show you how easy it is to start adding pages, navigation, and the like, to help create the structure of our site, and get it ready to receive data.

As is always the case, we need to start somewhere, so there is no better than a quick recap on the folder structure for our site. Most of it will appear pretty self-explanatory, but there are one or two quirks that ...

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