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+title: Announcing Gatsby Manor, themes for Gatsby 🎉🎊
+date: "2018-02-09"
+image: "gatsbymanor.jpg"
+author: "Steven Natera"
+---
+
+I am proud to announce [Gatsby Manor](https://www.gatsbymanor.com/), a gallery
+of themes for [Gatsby](https://www.Gatsby.org/). After 5 months of
+development, Gatsby Manor is now in public beta. Check out our
+[themes](https://www.gatsbymanor.com/themes) then use our [getting started](https://www.gatsbymanor.com/docs/quick-start/getting-started) guide to
+kickstart your Gatsby project.
+
+## Overview
+
+Gatsby Manor is built on top of Gatsby to provide a painless way of building
+websites with reusable React components we call themes. We even have a
+cleverly named npm module for theme management called
+[Jay](https://github.com/gatsbymanor/gatsby-jay) 😄.
+
+With Jay you can download a theme from our collection, and mount it as a default
+theme. Styles are applied instantly without server restarts or additional lines
+of code. Because of React, interactivity is supported out of the box.
+
+Want to switch themes? No problem. Jay can archive themes for later use in a
+themes folder in your local directory. Edit and swap themes as often as you want
+and Jay will manage the process. Want to learn more? Read our
+[docs](https://www.gatsbymanor.com/docs/cli/)!
+
+## How it all started
+
+The idea began when I decided to update my personal website. I wanted a way to
+rebuild my website with ease however the approaches were less than exciting.
+
+Building a new site myself would require a lot of time. My imagination often
+runs wild when it comes to web design and what is supposed take a day of work
+turns into weeks of site iterations. The joys of web development often causes me
+to over-engineer simple websites. Not to mention that building a development
+environment alone is the biggest requirement when starting from scratch.
+Therefore another option needed to be explored.
+
+[Wordpress](https://wordpress.org/) would be the fastest solution to build a
+website but I wanted to be able to rapidly prototype on customs themes.
+Unfortunately, understanding the architecture to develop themes on this stack
+would require additional time. Not to mention I dislike PHP (#sorryNotSorry 😅)
+therefore this option was a clear loser. I tried [Hugo](https://gohugo.io/) and
+[Jekyll](https://jekyllrb.com/). They gave me the right mix of speed and
+control. But their templating languages were unappealing as long term options.
+
+When I stumbled onto Gatsby, I found the golden goose. I already worked with
+React before, therefore I could prototype rapidly. The development environment
+gave me a tight feedback loop out of the box. And I had all the control in the
+world for enhanced interactive features.
+
+## The development process
+
+Once settled on Gatsby, I started working on my personal website. Within 2
+hours I wanted to prototype with different design elements because I found
+inspiration from [html5up](https://html5up.net/) templates. However I did not
+want to discard my work so far.
+
+I decided to make a new directory to store my outdated work, like a true digital
+hoarder. A few more hours passed and I found myself yarning for
+my original design choice because the new design was too complex. I knew this
+situation would occur again (sometimes I can be indecisive 😅) so I decided to build
+a small cli tool to switch between themes easily. But first I needed a name, and
+Jay seemed the most clever since I was working with Gatsby.
+
+As I was debugging code one day, I stumbled onto a feature request for a
+[theme system](https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby/issues/2662). At that moment,
+I decided I was going to build a theme solution for the community. Five
+months later, Gatsby Manor was born.
+
+## Final notes
+
+Gatsby Manor is in public beta until we reach v1. There are plenty of
+[Github](https://github.com/gatsbymanor) contributions to go around. To get
+started, try out a Gatsby Manor theme using our tutorial on [getting started](https://www.gatsbymanor.com/docs/quick-start/getting-started). Open an
+issue if you see an area of improvement. Follow and send us positive vibes on
+Twitter using [@TheGatsbyManor](https://twitter.com/TheGatsbyManor).
+
+TL;DR [Gatsby Manor](https://www.gatsbymanor.com/) is a place to get themes for
+your Gatsby project. Use our [getting started](https://www.gatsbymanor.com/docs/quick-start/getting-started) tutorial to use
+a [theme](https://www.gatsbymanor.com/themes) in your Gatsby project today.
+
+Cheers! 🎉🎊
+
+[@StevenNatera](https://twitter.com/stevennatera).

docs/blog/author.yaml

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  bio: Designer turned maker living and creating in Southern California
  avatar: avatars/vlad-pasculescu.jpg
  twitter: "@vladpasculescu"
+- id: Steven Natera
+ bio: Founder of Gatsby Manor. Site Reliability Engineer. Open source addict. Writer at Hackernoon.
+ avatar: avatars/steven-natera.jpg
+ twitter: "@stevennatera"