Elit

Author: Colorlib

Updated: October 2026 · v3.0.0

Credits: Images from Unsplash

Elit is a one-page photography website template with a dark layout, a pink accent and a fixed sidebar menu, built on Bootstrap 5. It has two pages: the portfolio home page and a blog post with comments and a sidebar. The home page has a full-screen parallax hero, a photo grid that opens in a lightbox, a testimonial slider, a biography, a blog list and a contact form, and the menu follows the section you are reading. The layout is responsive and works in all popular web browsers.

What’s new in 3.0

• Bootstrap 5.3.8 (the earlier release used Bootstrap 4 and jQuery), compiled from Sass with the original proportions, and plain JavaScript with no jQuery. Swiper 14 runs the testimonial slider, PhotoSwipe the photo lightbox and Jarallax the parallax hero; small built-in modules handle the mobile menu, scroll reveals and the forms. npm run build (Dart Sass and esbuild) compiles the minified stylesheets and script.
• Lighter pages: the three pages together went from 6.5 MB and 84 requests to 3.7 MB and 80 requests. Photos have AVIF versions with JPEG fallbacks, real dimensions and lazy loading.
• No third-party requests: Quicksand and Oswald are self-hosted, Lucide SVG icons and a small social-logo subset replace two icon fonts (the Twitter bird is now the X logo), and a Google Analytics 4 snippet stays commented out until you add your own ID.
• Working forms: the contact and comment forms send through php/send-email.php, with visible labels, validation, a spam trap and an in-page message. The blog search is a single field that filters the posts.
• Accessibility: a skip link and a main landmark, one h1 per page, a menu button that opens a keyboard-friendly panel, named icon links, visible focus rings and text colours that meet WCAG AA contrast.
• Fixes: new landscape and architecture photos in the grid, working social and menu links, sample posts and comments written for a photographer, unique page titles and descriptions, structured data and a favicon.