Laravel Site

A modern, responsive Laravel starter site with a landing page, portfolio, simple blog listing, and working contact form.
Perfect as a personal / agency website boilerplate.

✨ Features

• Clean, responsive layout built with Tailwind CSS CDN (no build step required)
• Hero landing page with call‑to‑action buttons
• About, Services, Portfolio, Blog, and Contact pages
• Contact form with validation and database storage
• Reusable Blade layout with navigation and footer components
• Simple data arrays in controllers (easy to replace with database later)
• MIT licensed — free for personal and commercial use

🧱 Tech Stack

• PHP 8.2+
• Laravel 10/11
• Blade templates
• Tailwind CSS (via CDN)
• Alpine.js (for small UI interactions, optional)

🚀 Getting Started

This project is designed to be dropped into a fresh Laravel installation.

1. Create a new Laravel app (if you haven't yet):

   composer create-project laravel/laravel laravel-site
   cd laravel-site

2. Copy these files into your Laravel app

   Merge the contents of this repository into your Laravel project:

   • app/Http/Controllers/PageController.php
   • app/Http/Controllers/ContactController.php
   • app/Models/Contact.php
   • database/migrations/*create_contacts_table.php
   • resources/views/** (layouts + pages)
   • routes/web.php (override or merge with your existing)
   • public/css/custom.css

3. Install dependencies & set up environment

   composer install
   cp .env.example .env
   php artisan key:generate

   Configure your database in .env:

   DB_CONNECTION=mysql
   DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
   DB_PORT=3306
   DB_DATABASE=laravel_site
   DB_USERNAME=root
   DB_PASSWORD=

4. Run migrations

   php artisan migrate

5. Serve the app

   php artisan serve

   Open your browser at http://127.0.0.1:8000.

📂 Main Pages

• / – Home (hero, services, portfolio preview, blog preview, CTA)
• /about – About the brand / person
• /services – List of services with pricing cards
• /portfolio – Grid of projects with tags
• /blog – Simple static blog listing (replace with real posts later)
• /contact – Contact form with validation & flash message

📝 Contact Form

The contact form stores submissions in the contacts table using the Contact model.

You can view data using:

php artisan tinker
>>> \App\Models\Contact::latest()->get();

You can extend this by:

• Sending emails with Mail::to(...)
• Adding admin dashboard to manage contacts

🧩 Customization

• Update the data arrays inside PageController to reflect your real services, projects, and posts.
• Edit Blade views in resources/views to match your branding.
• Add more routes and controllers as needed.

📄 License

This project is open‑source and available under the MIT License.