Multi-style possible?

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Hey everyone,

actually i’m looking for a static site generator/cms i can archieve the following with:

I want to build a tiny starting page where you can choose between 3 topics via buttons. Then you will redirect to a site covering this topic. Lets name it A,B,C

Each of these “topic-based” sites include multiple sites with informations, while each topic has its own theme/design

For example you come to the starting site, choosing topic A and getting a website in tech-style based on multiple sites for tech things like blog, services page etc.

When choosing topic B, it’s another Style, another multiple pages and another style for topic C.

The starting page also has its own “style” including it’s own button styles etc.

Why i’m interested in Hugo? I like to manage content in Markdown via Git Repositorys.

I’m not a programmer, but a admin so understanding technical things is something i can.

Thanks in advance

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Okay, so eventually i just had to research a bit more and found the multisite workflow topic. Thats what i’m looking for mostly, cause each of these sites could handle its own theme cause they have their own config.toml. Now i just need to figure out how to handle it in nginx to get each of these sites to each a subdir of the main domain while having one site on the main domain - but i think thats should be very easy.

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just publish each site to a subfolder of your main one:
hugo -d public -baseURL http://my-site
hugo -d public/topic-1 -baseURL http://my-site/topic-1
hugo -d public/topic-2 -baseURL http://my-site/topic-1

then push your public folder to your server ofc you will have to handle cross section links yourself.

If you implement your theme yourself you may also use section based layouts see Template lookup order

and ofc one yould implement something in between

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Does each topic really need to be on a separate site? Assuming site equals a subdomain or domain here. If traffic is directed from a hub, then why not one site with differently styled section?

If the themes dont move their parts arpund, then what the author mentions is achievable through CSS alone.