Static site (1): Eleventy scaffold, data layer, and first theme

.gitignore

@@ -21,7 +21,9 @@ Thumbs.db
 .idea/
 .vscode/
 
-# Node (only if the optional site phase adds it)
+# Node / static-site build (ADR 0003)
 node_modules/
 dist/
 .cache/
+_site/
+.eleventy.cache/

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -13,6 +13,19 @@ Recipe imports are logged both here (summary) and in
 
 ### Added
 
+- **Static site: scaffold, data layer, and first theme (ADR 0003, PR 1 of the site
+  phase).** An [Eleventy](https://www.11ty.dev/) site under `site/` that generates a
+  recipe-blog website from the existing Markdown: a landing page led by the biscotti
+  feature image, category pages, per-recipe pages (photo, ingredients, method, tags,
+  source link), and a tag index. The recipes are read (never written) by
+  `site/_lib/load.js`; the build is a view over the source of truth. Added
+  `eleventy.config.js`, `package.json` (Eleventy, gray-matter, markdown-it), a light
+  warm theme in `site/assets/style.css`, and `_site/` to `.gitignore`. Verified: 487
+  recipe pages and 16 category pages build, all referenced photos copy (jpg, png,
+  webp, avif, gif), and 0 broken internal links. Search (Pagefind), SEO/JSON-LD, and
+  the Pages deploy workflow with the `github.blimacake.com` domain follow in later
+  PRs. ADR 0003 moved to Accepted with the owner's decisions recorded.
+
 - **Automated e-book release workflow
   ([`.github/workflows/release.yml`](.github/workflows/release.yml)).** Publishing
   the cookbook as a GitHub Release is now a one-step action: push a tag named

docs/adr/0003-static-site-phase.md

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <!-- meta: title="ADR 0003: Optional static-site phase (GitHub Pages)" | type="adr" | archive="blimacake" -->
 # ADR 0003: Optional static-site phase (GitHub Pages)
 
-- **Status:** Proposed (awaiting owner decision)
+- **Status:** Accepted (owner decisions recorded 2026-07-07; build under way)
 - **Date:** 2026-07-07
 - **Deciders:** Jeff Posluns (owner)
 - **Relates to:** ADR 0001 (architecture), ADR 0002 (curation phase)
@@ -115,10 +115,27 @@ decisions below.
 4. **Analytics and comments.** Recommendation: neither, to keep the site private-data
    free and dependency-light, unless the owner wants a privacy-respecting counter.
 
+## Owner decisions (2026-07-07)
+
+The proposal is accepted. The open questions are resolved as follows:
+
+1. **Domain.** Start on the subdomain `github.blimacake.com`. Once the WordPress site
+   at blimacake.com retires, the apex domain will be redirected to the archive site.
+2. **Search.** Use Pagefind (static, zero-maintenance full-text search).
+3. **Theme.** A light custom theme in the spirit of blimacake.com. The landing page
+   mirrors that feel, led by a large feature image (the biscotti signature photo).
+4. **Analytics and comments.** Neither, to keep the site private-data free and
+   dependency-light.
+
+Generator: **Eleventy**, as recommended. Build order follows the proposed scope
+(scaffold and data layer, then theme, then search and SEO, then deploy). Each step is
+a focused PR with its own CHANGELOG entry.
+
 ## Consequences
 
-- **If accepted:** the archive gains a public, browsable website that reads like a
-  recipe blog, with no server to maintain, generated from the same governed Markdown.
-  Work proceeds as scoped PRs; this ADR moves to **Accepted**.
-- **If declined or deferred:** no change. The archive stays fully usable on GitHub,
-  as the e-book, and as portable files. This ADR can be revisited at any time.
+- **Accepted:** the archive gains a public, browsable website that reads like a recipe
+  blog, with no server to maintain, generated from the same governed Markdown. Work
+  proceeds as scoped PRs on the decisions above.
+- **The guardrails hold:** the Markdown remains the single source of truth, no
+  cook-from value is changed by the site build, and the existing CI gates are not
+  weakened.

eleventy.config.js

@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+// Eleventy config for the Blima Cake site.
+// Input is site/; recipe content is read from recipes/ by site/_lib/load.js.
+// The build is a generated VIEW over the Markdown; it never writes recipe content.
+
+export default function (eleventyConfig) {
+  // Site's own CSS and assets (site/assets -> /assets).
+  eleventyConfig.addPassthroughCopy("site/assets");
+
+  // Repo-root assets and the e-book, served from the site root.
+  eleventyConfig.addPassthroughCopy({ "assets/branding": "assets/branding" });
+  eleventyConfig.addPassthroughCopy({ "BlimaCake.epub": "BlimaCake.epub" });
+
+  // Recipe photos, kept at the same relative path the pages reference.
+  for (const ext of ["jpg", "jpeg", "png", "webp", "avif", "gif"]) {
+    eleventyConfig.addPassthroughCopy(`recipes/**/images/*.${ext}`);
+  }
+
+  eleventyConfig.addFilter("limit", (arr, n) => (arr || []).slice(0, n));
+
+  return {
+    dir: {
+      input: "site",
+      output: "_site",
+      includes: "_includes",
+      data: "_data",
+    },
+    markdownTemplateEngine: "njk",
+    htmlTemplateEngine: "njk",
+    templateFormats: ["njk", "md"],
+  };
+}