Behind the Build

Idea to live - accurate, fast and lovely - in an afternoon

This whole hub - ten pages, every fixture, both squads, a live calendar, a full timeline, the knockout bracket and a hall of champions - went from a blank page to live, accurate and good-looking in about five hours. No new dependencies. No external services. Just Domma. Here's the honest how — and why it was that quick.

~5 hrsIdea to live
10Pages
5Collections
5Custom CSS blocks
184Data rows
0Dependencies added

The brilliance is the system

Four simple parts that do all the heavy lifting

The data

Collections

Every fixture, player, champion and team lives in a collection — structured data you edit in the admin. 104 fixtures, 52 players, 22 winners, 48 teams. Type a score, the site updates.

The look

Custom CSS blocks

A single styled template per card — squad cards, fixture cards, the winners' roll, the timeline. Write it once; the data pours through it. Change the design in one file, every card follows.

The interactivity

Components

The live bits — the month-grid calendar and the kick-off countdowns — are self-contained Domma components that fetch their own data and render in the browser.

The glue

Shortcodes

Pages are composed from plain [collection], [hero] and block tags. No build step, no framework wiring — just drop a tag and it renders.

Why it's that fast

One source of truth, many views

The same fixtures collection powers the fixture cards, the calendar, the timeline and the full schedule — four completely different views, zero duplicated data. Edit one row in the admin and all four update at once. That's the whole trick: build the data once, render it everywhere.

Fast

File-based, cached, one script tag, no build pipeline. New pages render instantly; edits go live on save.

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Powerful

Collections, blocks and components compose into anything — cards, grids, calendars, timelines — all from the same data.

Lovely

One theme, custom CSS where it counts, 55 self-hosted images. Consistent and on-brand on every page.

Dead honest, though

It's not magic. Live scores are entered by hand - there's no free, reliable football feed, so 6 matches' results are a quick admin edit (not an API). Four final group games are flagged "to be confirmed" until FIFA pins the slots. And every image is self-hosted on purpose - the content policy blocks third-party images, which keeps the site fast and dependency-free.

Fast, powerful, lovely to look at — and entirely owned. That's why Domma exists.