Welcome to your astro-ignite site

by Jordi Parra

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You just bootstrapped a complete Astro site. This post is a quick tour of what’s in front of you so you know what to keep, what to edit, and what to delete.

What you have

  • A working blog at /blog with two example posts (this one is one of them) authored as MDX in src/content/blog/{locale}/.
  • A projects showcase at /projects with a sample case study.
  • An about page at /about and a contact form at /contact that’s wired to whichever email provider you picked at scaffold (Resend, SMTP, or a console-only stub).
  • Legal page templates — privacy, terms, cookies — at /legal/*. They ship with placeholder content and a clear “review with counsel” disclaimer; review and customize before you go live.
  • A cookie banner that controls whether analytics fires.
  • A dark mode toggle in the nav (try it).
  • Sitemap, RSS, robots, manifest, and OG image — all wired and i18n-aware.

What to edit first

  1. Replace the brand colors in src/styles/global.css (look for the @theme block).
  2. Replace the OG image at public/og/og-default.png with a 1200×630 image branded for your site.
  3. Fill in src/config/site.ts — every locale-keyed object, your social URLs, your organization name.
  4. Customize the legal templates in src/content/legal/{locale}/ and review them with a lawyer.
  5. Delete this post when you don’t need the tour anymore.

What to read

For deeper customization there’s a *.md guide for each subsystem in the template root: FONTS.md, ANALYTICS.md, OG.md, IMAGES.md, LEGAL.md, and BENCHMARKS.md. Each is short, recipe-driven, and assumes you’ll edit code rather than read prose.