title: Portfolio Sites
---
summary: Demonstrates how to build portfolio sites with Lektor.
---
body:

Because Lektor lets you customize your data model entirely it's the perfect
tool for building portfolio websites.  No matter what it is you're building,
you can structure the data exactly like you want.  In this example we will
assume we build a website for someone who wants to showcase their art projects.

## The Models

The way we want to go about this is that we have a site where all the
projects show up and then a detail page for each project in particular.

### `projects.ini`

First we set up the project overview page.  This model instructs Lektor that
all of the pages below it will be of type `project`.  We also set it to
`hidden` and `protected` which will make it unavailable in the admin (`hidden`)
for new pages and make it impossible to delete (`protected`).  This means we
need to manually create the one page later which will use this.

Because we only have a single page for the projects overview we give it a
static label manually (`label = Projects`).

```ini
[model]
name = Projects
label = Projects
hidden = yes
protected = yes

[children]
model = project
order_by = -date, name
```

### `project.ini`

Next up is the model for the project.  This is completely up to you, we will go
with some things here that might appear on such a portfolio page.  In addition
we will do something with the attachments of this page, but more about that
later.  For now we just order them by their filename (`_id`):

```ini
[model]
name = Project
label = {{ this.name }}
hidden = yes

[attachments]
order_by = _id

[fields.name]
label = Name
type = string
size = large

[fields.date]
label = Date
type = date
size = 1/4

[fields.type]
label = Project type
type = string
size = 1/4

[fields.website]
label = Website
type = url
size = 1/2

[fields.description]
label = Description
type = markdown
```

## Templates

So now that we have models, we should probably go over what we can do with the
attachments.  Because each page in Lektor can have attachments added we can
automatically reference those in our templates.  Here is what we're going to
do: we will take all the attached images, order them by their filename and then
render thumbnails for them in the detail page.  Additionally we want to show
one of the images on the overview page if it's available.

### `projects.html`

So here we just render out all projects in the order defined in our
models and if there is an image attached, we pick the first one and make
a thumbnail.

```html+jinja
{% extends "layout.html" %}
{% block title %}Projects{% endblock %}
{% block body %}
  <h1>Projects</h1>
  <div class="projects">
  {% for project in this.children %}
    <div class="project">
      {% set image = project.attachments.images.first() %}
      {% if image %}
        <img src="{{ image.thumbnail(320)|url }}" alt="">
      {% endif %}
      <h2><a href="{{ project|url }}">{{ project.name }}</a>
        <em>({{ project.date.year }})</em></h2>
      <p><strong>{{ project.type }}</strong></p>
    </div>
  {% endfor %}
  </div>
{% endblock %}
```

### `project.html`

For the detail page we show all information we know about:

```html+jinja
{% extends "layout.html" %}
{% block title %}{{ this.name }} ({{ this.date.year }}){% endblock %}
{% block body %}
  <h1>{{ this.name }}</h1>
  <dl>
    <dt>Date
    <dd>{{ this.date|dateformat }}
    {% if this.website %}
    <dt>Website
    <dd><a href="{{ this.website }}">{{ this.website.host }}</a>
    {% endif %}
    <dt>Project type
    <dd>{{ this.type }}
  </dl>
  <h2>Description</h2>
  <div class="description">{{ this.description }}</div>
  {% set images = this.attachments.images.all() %}
  {% if images %}
    <h2>Images</h2>
    {% for image in images %}
      <div class="image">
        <img src="{{ image.thumbnail(640)|url }}" alt="">
        {% if image.exif %}
        <p class=meta>
          {{ image.exif.camera }}
          {% if image.exif.created_at %}
            ({{ image.exif.created_at|dateformat }})
          {% endif %}
        {% endif %}
      </div>
    {% endfor %}
  {% endif %}
{% endblock %}
```

Some notes on what's maybe not entirely obvious:

* a `url` field does not just give access to the stored URL but also provides
  some properties such as `.host` to just get the host of the website.
* we can use the `|dateformat` filter to format out dates nicely
* by calling `.all()` on our images we get the images back as a list where we
  can then check if any images exist with `if images`.
* we can access embedded EXIF information by using the `.exif` property.