Most landing page projects lose their first weekend to setup: picking a framework, wiring up a build pipeline, arguing about a component library. Cookie skips that by keeping the whole stack to two things you already know, Jekyll and Tailwind CSS, with no build step beyond what’s already wired up.
Here’s a rough timeline for taking a bare Cookie install to a shipped landing page.
Saturday morning: clone and customize. Fork the repo, run bin/bootstrap, and start the dev server with bin/start. Everything on the page, headline, feature grid, FAQ, pricing, lives in index.html as plain HTML and Tailwind classes. Swap the copy, adjust the sections you don’t need, and the page already looks like a real product rather than a template.
Saturday afternoon: write supporting pages. The about, terms, and privacy pages live in _pages as Markdown. Since they’re just Markdown files, writing them is closer to drafting a doc than editing a template, headings, links, and code blocks all render through the same typography system as the rest of the site.
Sunday: connect a blog. Drop a Markdown file in _posts following the YYYY-MM-DD-title.md naming convention and it shows up on /blog automatically, with RSS and SEO tags already configured through Jekyll Feed and Jekyll SEO Tag.
Sunday evening: deploy. Push the static output to Netlify, Vercel, or any static host. There’s no server to provision and no runtime to keep patched.
The pattern that makes this fast isn’t a specific feature, it’s that nothing needs configuring before you can start writing content. The theme ships with a working design, so customizing means editing what’s already there instead of assembling it from scratch.