Astro Sphere: Getting Started

Astro Sphere is designed to be configurable. This article will cover the basics on configuring the site and make it personal.

First let’s change the url

//astro.config.mjs

export default defineConfig({
  site: "https://astro-sphere.vercel.app", // your domain here
  integrations: [mdx(), sitemap(), solidJs(), tailwind({ applyBaseStyles: false })],
})

Next, Let’s configure the Site

// src/consts.ts

export const SITE: Site = {
  TITLE: "Astro Sphere",
  DESCRIPTION: "Welcome to Astro Sphere, a portfolio and blog for designers and developers.",
  AUTHOR: "Mark Horn",
}

Change the branding

The browser icon is located in /public/favicon.ico

The header and footer branding icon is located in /public/brand.png as a sprite with id=“brand”

The rest of the consts file

Each page has a metadata entry that is useful for SEO.

export const SERVICE: Page = {
  TITLE: "Service",
  DESCRIPTION: "Places I have worked.",
}

The links that are displayed in the header and drawer

export const LINKS: Links = [
  { HREF: "/", TEXT: "Home" },
  { HREF: "/work", TEXT: "Work" },
  { HREF: "/blog", TEXT: "Blog" },
  { HREF: "/tips", TEXT: "Tips" },
]

The social media links

export const SOCIALS: Socials = [
  {
    NAME: "Github",
    ICON: "github",
    TEXT: "markhorn-dev",
    HREF: "https://github.com/markhorn-dev/astro-sphere"
  },
]