# How fmkc.fi was built

URL: https://olli.works/blog/how-fmkcfi-was-built | Published: 2025-10-27 | Tags: development

> A quick project to make a website for the Finnish Mechanical Keyboard Community to have a proper place to host information about the community.

For years, I hosted information about old FMKC (Finnish Mechanical Keyboard Community) events on olli.works, but as the number of events grew, I realized my site was no longer the right place for them. These should have their own dedicated site, which led to this quick project of setting up a site with free hosting.

[fmkc.fi](https://fmkc.fi)

There had been many discussions about creating a fmkc.fi website or docs to host important information, as well as niche topics relevant to the Finnish community (like keycap NorDe support), but there always seemed to be a reason not to pursue it or to stop using solutions like a Hugo Docs site managed with ForestryCMS.

I had enough of hosting the content on my own site, so I decided to just do it—and hopefully this encourages others to help out as well.

## The stack

As I was familiar with Astro from building this site, I came across a version specifically made for docs pages that promised easier setup: Astro Starlight. So here was the stack for this project:

* Astro Starlight
* Catppuccin theme for Starlight
* Github Pages

Nothing more, nothing less, just a simple setup, maybe some custom CSS and all the content in markdown files.

[Starlight](https://starlight.astro.build/)

[Catppuccin theme](https://starlight.catppuccin.com/)

## Setting things up

Starlight was a breeze to get working, and since we were using a template, there were no major issues. I did, however, add some custom CSS tweaks to make the templates look a bit nicer, but nothing major.

Perhaps the largest task was importing all the data by hand. At the time of writing, there were 17 meetups to document. Thankfully, I had information on most of them from my own site, but many of the image album links had broken, so I had to contact various people to host the photos elsewhere instead of on Imgur.

## End result

The final site is simple yet clean and gets the job done. I’ve also managed to encourage other members to make pull requests, so I don’t have to maintain it all by myself.

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