Hi all,
I am organising an event (more or less a mountain trek) and would like to create a hugo-based website for it. I have almost no website experience and the only site I ever built with hugo is my own, based on Academic.
What I need for this site is:
A large banner with a cool image on top, to catch the reader’s attention
A drop down menu (or similar) for viewing archived past occurrences of the same event
The possibility to insert google maps / leaflet widget(s), maybe even with the ability to insert the path that will be taken by the attendees
A very simple schedule
No need for full blog-style pages, but an “updates” section might be useful
Contacts, share etc.
Multilanguage
Reactive (phone/desktop)
A form for subscribing (free: something built-in, mail form or link to google forms?)
Section for organisational details (rules, what to bring, etc.)
Is there any specific theme that fits the bill without inserting any (or much) custom JS code? Maybe the following themes could be suited for the task:
ananke
hero
grayscale
conference
devfest
I have no experience with these so I do not know if they are flexible enough to adapt to this usage. Maybe they all are, but having never used any Hugo theme other than Academic (which is probably not suited for this) I do not know!
Off the top of my head, Airspace Hugo comes to mind. I’ve used it before, and I think it fulfills most of your criteria. It doesn’t have a built-in calendar, though.
Airspace’s documentation seems very limited to me, unless I am missing something. Is this the case with all themes? I was used to Academic, whose documentation is almost as extensive as hugo’s itself!
Most of the themes have pretty limited documentation, in my experience. I’ve never tried Academic, so I can’t compare the two, but I’d imagine that given its popularity Academic has more documentation.
Yeah, Academic’s documentation is super good. As I don’t have much free time to build the side, and this is just a fun sideproject, I might try to go for a more well-documented theme. In any case it’s too early to say, I’ll test some of the mentioned themes in more depth next weekend.