A few years ago I made my personal website/portfolio using KirbyCMS, which I used mainly without interface but of which I didn’t appreciate all the PHP server part.
Considering that I am not a programmer and never programmed in Go, during my spare time I managed to convert my personal site and publish it with Hugo in less than a dozen days.
I like Hugo very much! The simplicity of the Go language and the ability to publish the site statically, plus the fact that the content is written in pure markdown make it perfect for publishing content quickly and with style.
My site is really simple: the theme adapts to various mobile devices and the user’s dark/light preferences, if the operating system supports it. The color palette is designed to be accessible and have contrast in line with current accessibility standards.
Is the theme perfect? No, in particular I still need to figure out how to improve the taxonomy and tags part. I will work on that, but I was keen to have a base to start publishing and updating content, which was the original reason for having my own site. As it matures, I plan to publish it on my github.
Is the site perfect? No, currently nginx does not serve the custom 404 page while in in the development server does.
I had some time to toy with my nginx config and got my 404 page working. I made a post in the tips & tricks category of this forum, linked below. I hope it helps.
Thanks @dbob16 for the kinds words!
Yes, I made theme/layout by myself from scratch. I took my previous template I did in KirbyCMS and migrated but overall is my original and custom layout.
For the 404 is in the list of things to do and FIX (thanks @davidsneighbour for pointing out the documentation link, I’ll check them out soon).
Thanks! These feedbacks are keeping me motivated to improve the theme. As soon as I feel it will ready to be public, I’ll publish it on my github. For the time being I want to fix couple of details.
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