Theme recommendations for massage therapy site and blog

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Hi,

I’m looking for ideas about which themes to try for a site for a massage therapist who also writes an award winning massage blog… something with good clean but sophisticated landing pages and forward thinking blog UI/layout

Not looking for “new age” nonsense, but something that will tell the reader this is a massage therapist who is data driven

I am very open to hearing your ideas, and thank you in advance!

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and then I remembered… I was a computer programmer for 20 years, and something in the documentation clicked for me last night, and I said “heavens to murgatroid, Paul, build your own theme!”

So, that’s what I’m doing - wish me luck!

Paul

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I only check in every so often.

Usually I opt to create my own themes from scratch, that way I can tailor the project to my own needs and desires of the project.

If you already have some knowledge of HTML and CSS, it’s pretty simple to pick up. You just have to put references, functions, and methods in {{ }}'s, other than that it’s pretty much just HTML, CSS, and JS. Hugo Docs is a wealth of knowledge when it comes to that.

The ones you’ll probably need to get used to right away is placeholders like {{ .Title }} and {{ .Site.Title }}. As well as {{ with }}, {{ if }}, and {{ range }} blocks (you need to put in an {{ end }} with each of them).

If you need some more pointers or inspiration, feel free to look at my few personal projects:

Best of luck.

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