About walk​peak​district​.com

Tell me more…

walkpeakdistrict.com focuses on short walks in the Peak District (from one to five miles), presented with detailed photos overlaid with route arrows, clear written directions, and easy-to-read maps.

Particular attention is paid to letting you know about other facilities that are available (for example, cafes and public toilets), public transport to the start of walks, and whether a route (or part of a route) is suitable for wheelchair users or those with limited mobility.

Combined with a clean, uncluttered design that works well with mobile devices, walkpeakdistrict.com is a highly practical resource for the thousands of visitors that enjoy the Peak District every year.

How it's made

walkpeakdistrict.com makes use of the following tools, frameworks, and services:

• Jekyll — a Ruby gem that generates static pages for lightning-fast loading, without server-side database queries
• Bootstrap — a front-end framework for creating responsive content, suitable for mobile, tablet and desktop
• Liquid — a templating engine built into Jekyll; used to define page layouts using simple logic that can parse YAML
• Isotope — a jQuery plugin for animated sorting and layout
• git — a distributed version control system (DVCS)
• Github — a cloud-based source repository
• Amazon Web Services (AWS) — a cloud computing platform comprising many services. walkpeakdistrict.com uses S3 buckets to host the site.
• Cloudflare — for content delivery network (CDN) services, and DNS.
• Google Analytics — a web analytics service for tracking and reporting on website traffic.
• Google AdSense — used to serve advertisements. (The small revenue that these adverts generate helps to meet the running costs of walkpeakdistrict.com and keeps the website free to use.)