diff --git a/internal/builder/build_page.go b/internal/builder/build_page.go
index b3bb817..0183871 100644
--- a/internal/builder/build_page.go
+++ b/internal/builder/build_page.go
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ type PageData struct {
 	FooterName string
 	Footer     template.HTML
 	Template   string
+	Type       string
 }
 
 type Metadata map[string]interface{}
@@ -49,6 +50,32 @@ func processWithYaml(f []byte) (Metadata, []byte, error) {
 	return meta, []byte(split[2]), nil
 }
 
+func processFrontmatter(p string) (Metadata, error) {
+	// read only the first three lines
+	f, err := util.ReadNLines(p, 3)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	// Check if the file has valid metadata
+	trimmed := bytes.TrimSpace(f)
+	normalized := strings.ReplaceAll(string(trimmed), "\r\n", "\n")
+	if !strings.HasPrefix(normalized, ("---\n")) {
+		// No valid yaml, so return the entire content
+		return nil, nil
+	}
+	// Separate YAML from rest of document
+	split := strings.SplitN(normalized, "---\n", 3)
+	if len(split) < 3 {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("Invalid frontmatter format.")
+	}
+	var meta Metadata
+	// Parse YAML
+	if err := yaml.Unmarshal([]byte(split[1]), &meta); err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	return meta, nil
+}
+
 func buildPageData(m Metadata, in string, out string, settings *Settings) *PageData {
 	p := &PageData{}
 	if title, ok := m["title"].(string); ok {
@@ -92,8 +119,10 @@ func buildPageData(m Metadata, in string, out string, settings *Settings) *PageD
 	// TODO: Don't hard code posts dir name
 	if t, ok := m["type"].(string); util.InDir(in, "posts") && !ok || (ok && t == "article" || t == "post") {
 		p.Template = (settings.ArticleTemplate)
+		p.Type = "post"
 	} else {
 		p.Template = (settings.DefaultTemplate)
+		p.Type = ""
 	}
 	return p
 }
diff --git a/internal/builder/build_page_test.go b/internal/builder/build_page_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3785faa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/builder/build_page_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+package builder
+
+import "testing"
+
+func Test_processWithYaml(t *testing.T) {
+	tests := []struct {
+		name string // description of this test case
+		// Named input parameters for target function.
+		f       []byte
+		want    Metadata
+		want2   []byte
+		wantErr bool
+	}{
+		// TODO: Add test cases.
+	}
+	for _, tt := range tests {
+		t.Run(tt.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			got, got2, gotErr := processWithYaml(tt.f)
+			if gotErr != nil {
+				if !tt.wantErr {
+					t.Errorf("processWithYaml() failed: %v", gotErr)
+				}
+				return
+			}
+			if tt.wantErr {
+				t.Fatal("processWithYaml() succeeded unexpectedly")
+			}
+			// TODO: update the condition below to compare got with tt.want.
+			if true {
+				t.Errorf("processWithYaml() = %v, want %v", got, tt.want)
+			}
+			if true {
+				t.Errorf("processWithYaml() = %v, want %v", got2, tt.want2)
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
diff --git a/internal/builder/process.go b/internal/builder/process.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5f57055
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/builder/process.go
@@ -0,0 +1,73 @@
+package builder
+
+import (
+	"io/fs"
+	"path/filepath"
+
+	"github.com/ficcdaf/zona/internal/util"
+)
+
+type ProcessMemory struct {
+	// Pages holds all page data that may be
+	// needed while building *other* pages.
+	Pages []*Page
+	// Queue is a FIFO queue of Pages indexes to be built.
+	// queue should be constructed after all the Pages have been parsed
+	Queue []int
+	// Posts is an array of pointers to post pages
+	Posts []*Page
+}
+
+type Page struct {
+	Data    *PageData
+	Ext     string
+	InPath  string
+	OutPath string
+	Copy    bool
+}
+
+// processFile processes the metadata only
+// of each file
+func processFile(inPath string, entry fs.DirEntry, err error, outRoot string, settings *Settings, pm *ProcessMemory) error {
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	var toProcess bool
+	var outPath string
+	var ext string
+	if !entry.IsDir() {
+		ext = filepath.Ext(inPath)
+		outPath = util.ReplaceRoot(inPath, outRoot)
+		switch ext {
+		case ".md":
+			// fmt.Println("Processing markdown...")
+			toProcess = true
+			outPath = util.ChangeExtension(outPath, ".html")
+		// If it's not a file we need to process,
+		// we simply copy it to the destination path.
+		default:
+			toProcess = false
+		}
+	}
+	page := &Page{
+		nil,
+		ext,
+		inPath,
+		outPath,
+		!toProcess,
+	}
+	if toProcess {
+		// process its frontmatter here
+		m, err := processFrontmatter(inPath)
+		if err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+		pd := buildPageData(m, inPath, outPath, settings)
+		if pd.Type == "post" {
+			pm.Posts = append(pm.Posts, page)
+		}
+		page.Data = pd
+	}
+	pm.Pages = append(pm.Pages, page)
+	return nil
+}
diff --git a/internal/builder/traverse.go b/internal/builder/traverse.go
index 5272dca..824df5a 100644
--- a/internal/builder/traverse.go
+++ b/internal/builder/traverse.go
@@ -8,7 +8,8 @@ import (
 	"github.com/ficcdaf/zona/internal/util"
 )
 
-func processFile(inPath string, entry fs.DirEntry, err error, outRoot string, settings *Settings) error {
+// TODO: Process the metadata and build a queue of files to convert here instead of converting them immediately
+func buildFile(inPath string, entry fs.DirEntry, err error, outRoot string, settings *Settings) error {
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
@@ -46,7 +47,7 @@ func processFile(inPath string, entry fs.DirEntry, err error, outRoot string, se
 
 func Traverse(root string, outRoot string, settings *Settings) error {
 	walkFunc := func(path string, entry fs.DirEntry, err error) error {
-		return processFile(path, entry, err, outRoot, settings)
+		return buildFile(path, entry, err, outRoot, settings)
 	}
 	err := filepath.WalkDir(root, walkFunc)
 	return err
diff --git a/internal/util/file.go b/internal/util/file.go
index 2028018..e164319 100644
--- a/internal/util/file.go
+++ b/internal/util/file.go
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 package util
 
 import (
+	"bufio"
+	"bytes"
 	"io"
 	"os"
 )
@@ -56,3 +58,25 @@ func CopyFile(inPath string, outPath string) error {
 		return nil
 	}
 }
+
+// ReadNLines reads the first N lines from a file as a single byte array
+func ReadNLines(filename string, n int) ([]byte, error) {
+	file, err := os.Open(filename)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	defer file.Close()
+
+	var buffer bytes.Buffer
+	scanner := bufio.NewScanner(file)
+	for i := 0; i < 3 && scanner.Scan(); i++ {
+		buffer.Write(scanner.Bytes())
+		buffer.WriteByte('\n')
+	}
+
+	if err := scanner.Err(); err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+
+	return buffer.Bytes(), nil
+}
diff --git a/internal/util/queue.go b/internal/util/queue.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3fce4fa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/util/queue.go
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+package util
+
+// Enqueue appends an int to the queue
+func Enqueue(queue []int, element int) []int {
+	queue = append(queue, element)
+	return queue
+}
+
+// Dequeue pops the first element of the queue
+func Dequeue(queue []int) (int, []int) {
+	element := queue[0] // The first element is the one to be dequeued.
+	if len(queue) == 1 {
+		tmp := []int{}
+		return element, tmp
+	}
+	return element, queue[1:] // Slice off the element once it is dequeued.
+}
+
+func Tail(queue []int) int {
+	l := len(queue)
+	if l == 0 {
+		return -1
+	} else {
+		return l - 1
+	}
+}