Showcase: Dartmoor Walking

I’ve been working on this site for about 18 months now. I took over a site for a chap who was dying and has since passed, and although the site contained a lot of very good information and pictures, it was hard to navigate and even harder to maintain, having been written over a period of more than a decade with Frontpage (Did you just shiver?)

So I started to think that perhaps a new website would be more suited. I’d tried Jeckyll before for a small site, and quite liked the idea of SSGs, not least because I could host it for free and know it would be secure. I must say I’ve really enjoyed working with Hugo and learning as I go.

The site is https://dartmoorwalking.org/

Because of the nature of how I got the original site, I couldn’t help but ponder my own mortality. So the source is also publically available over at GitHub - digdilem/dartmoorwalking.org: Website and code for dartmoorwalking.org · GitHub with a fairly unique licence that it can be copied if I ever croak it myself.

I hope you like it. I opened it up over Christmas 2024 and it’s doing reasonable numbers, and is hosted on Cloudflare Pages.

Nice little site with lots of info. Makes me want to cross the North Sea and have a few walks myself!

looks great!