🚀 Overview

Blanco is a clean, performance-focused Laravel script for building a personal
portfolio + blog with professional credibility. Showcase projects, publish long-form articles,
collect leads, and present your CV—all with accessible, mobile-first layouts and SEO-ready metadata.

Experience: Designed around real freelancer and developer workflows—case studies, tech stacks,
screenshots, code snippets, testimonials, and inbound leads via a secure contact form—so you can go live in hours,
not weeks.

Ideal for: Developers, designers, freelancers, agencies, photographers, makers, and educators who want a polished
web presence without maintaining a full CMS.

✨ Key Features

• Projects & Case Studies: Project pages with galleries, tech badges, roles, timelines, and external links.
• Blog Engine: Categories, tags, featured images, reading time, draft/scheduled posts, code highlight.
• Pages & CV: About/Resume pages, skills matrix, experience timeline, services & pricing sections.
• Media & Galleries: Lightbox galleries, image optimization, WebP support (server-dependent).
• Contact & Leads: Spam-protected contact form, email notifications, optional newsletter signup.
• Comments (optional): Native comments or plug-in providers (e.g., Disqus/Hyvor) via settings.
• Customization: Theme presets, color & typography controls, logo/favicon, home layout variants, dark mode toggle.
• Performance & SEO: Clean HTML, meta tags, Open Graph/Twitter cards, JSON-LD, sitemap.xml & robots.txt, canonical URLs, RSS feed.
• Admin Panel: CRUD for posts, projects, menus, sections, media library, users & roles.
• Localization: Multi-language ready (translation files), RTL-friendly.
• Security: CSRF protection, validation, rate-limited contact form, role-based access.
• Backups & Exports: Content export (JSON/CSV) and scheduled backups (via Laravel scheduler).

⚙️ Technical Stack

• Framework: Laravel 9/10 (PHP 8.1+)
• Database: MySQL/MariaDB (PDO)
• Frontend: Blade templates, HTML5, CSS/SCSS, JavaScript (ES6); optional build pipeline (Vite)
• Email: SMTP (TLS) for contact notifications & newsletters
• Server Requirements: Linux (Nginx/Apache), PHP extensions: pdo_mysql, mbstring, openssl, curl, json, fileinfo
• Browsers: Latest Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari (desktop & mobile)

🧩 Installation Guide

1. Upload the files to your server (e.g., /var/www/blanco) and set your web root to the public/ directory.
2. Run composer install --no-dev --optimize-autoloader.
3. Copy .env.example → .env; set APP_URL, DB credentials, and mail (SMTP) settings.
4. Generate app key & migrate: php artisan key:generate and php artisan migrate --seed.
5. Link storage & set permissions: php artisan storage:link; ensure storage and bootstrap/cache are writable.
6. (Optional) Build assets: npm ci then npm run build (Vite).
7. Log in to the admin panel, update site settings, create your first project and blog post, and verify the contact form.

📦 Deliverables

• Complete Blanco source code (GPL distribution)
• Admin dashboard for Posts, Projects, Pages, Menus, Media, Users
• Front-end theme with dark mode & customizable sections
• Database migrations/seeders & sample content
• Documentation: installation, configuration, theming, and deployment

📱 Supported Platforms

• Linux shared/VPS/cloud hosting (LEMP/LAMP)
• PHP 8.1+ and MySQL/MariaDB 10.x
• All modern desktop & mobile browsers

🧠 Notes

• License: Distributed under the GPL—you may study, modify, and redistribute under GPL terms.
• Customization Tips: Add a “Now/Uses” page, integrate Markdown editor, enable image CDN, add newsletter via Mail/ESP webhooks, and create project taxonomies.
• Performance: Enable OPcache, configure caching (response/cache headers), and serve images in next-gen formats where available.
• SEO Assurance: Copy targets “Laravel portfolio script”, “developer portfolio CMS”, “blog & portfolio Laravel” to improve discoverability.

👨‍💻 Original Developer Credit

Credit to the original author of Blanco. For official updates, premium support, and commercial licensing,
please visit the original marketplace listing:
Original Author on CodeCanyon.

🔒 Disclaimer

This item is provided under the GPL for educational and development purposes. It is not affiliated with
or endorsed by the original developer unless explicitly stated. All trademarks and brand names remain the property of their
respective owners. For production use, support, and future updates, please purchase a valid license from the original vendor.