Hey there!
i have this website that I’m turning to fully static with HUGO: https://tuttu.yo.fr/Stellaris/
It’s mostly pictures displayed on each page, nothing fancy. But I’m trying to do it the smart way and as I learn how to use HUGO and how to structure my content, I’d like your advice on what I plan to do. Is there a better way to do what I want? Is it a good starting point? Something different should be done? You get it.
Most page are similar and are cut in two or three parts: vanilla pictures, MEM pictures and sometimes, MOM pictures. Taking the Event Pictures and the Origin Pictures page as a example (Because it has the three parts. Visible here), here’s the content structure I have in mind (only a few pages):
content/
├── Event Pictures
│ ├── index.md <-- Front matter with specific layout set
│ ├── vanilla
│ │ ├── picture1.png
│ │ ├── picture2.png
│ │ └── picture3.png
│ └── mem
│ ├── picture1.png
│ ├── picture2.png
│ └── picture3.png
└── Origin Pictures
├── index.md <-- Front matter with specific layout set
├── vanilla
│ ├── picture1.png
│ ├── picture2.png
│ └── picture3.png
├── mem
│ ├── picture1.png
│ ├── picture2.png
│ └── picture3.png
└── mom
├── picture1.png
├── picture2.png
└── picture3.png
The plan is then to make a section for each of the existing pages on the current website. Each section will have a shared or specific layout if needed (Some pages display pictures a bit differently) declared in the index.md front matter.
In these layouts, the idea is to get the pictures from each child folders of a section folder and display them on the single page of the section. The index.md file will have instructions (In front matter, I guess) as to what should be displayed for content that is not exactly the same (Changing the name of a title in the page or a regex pattern for fetching the good pictures).
Is this something that can be done this way or am I going in a completely wrong direction? From what I understand here (Page Resources | Hugo), each section will be a page bundle with access to all the content in that section folder. But there might be things I’m overlooking, being still new with HUGO.