About this site

This site was created as part of the Inaugural International 11ty Symposium on Making Websites Real Good. The organization and syndication of the content on this site demonstrates features of CloudCannon’s Git-based headless CMS and the open-source static API generator Flatlake.

(The content itself — fictional news articles and earnings reports for undisclosed financial quarters — is mostly nonsense. But it was fun to write.)

The main site of this network, realbig.company, aggregates and redistributes news articles from each of its subsidiary sites, using Flatlake.

Using CloudCannon’s Site Mounting feature, each of the subsidiary sites shares a common source folder of page components, meaning that content editors on any one of the sites have access to exactly the same page elements. Similarly, Site Mounting allows for multiple sites to share the same layout files, for a cohesive visual identity.

The source code for all parts is available at the Real Big Company organization in GitHub.

For a less fictional example of how these approaches might work, and a more detailed explanation, see https://cloudcannon.com/blog/how-to-manage-hundreds-of-connected-websites-with-a-git-based-headless-cms/