#hugo static site

[awaketake]

Best Hugo Themes For Blogs and Portfolio Sites

In this video I'll cover the best Hugo themes for blogs and portfolio sites. Whether you're looking for a clean blog theme or a modern portfolio theme, there's something for everyone.

I'll show you 8 top-notch Hugo themes that offer unique features like video support, responsive design, and more!

Plus, I'll walk you through how to install and customize them for your brand.

[faraixyz]

I was looking into using a CMS instead of Hugo and I was trying to look for resources which would help me migrate. It’s not that Hugo is bad, it’s just that I have different priorities now. Thing is, there hasn’t been much written about this.

This is the most I could find:

Wai Hon moved away from Hugo because he wanted to focus more on writing rather than developing. As fun as messing with static site generators is, you can get distracted trying to figure out the details that you forget to write. I identified with this post a lot.

Veesar moved away since they wanted to play around with WordPress.

Diego moved because publishing a post with Hugo is a big PITA as compared to just using your phone.

I swore I had more than this but this is all I could find. Basically, with Hugo and static site generators in general, since there’s no server hosting your content, you need to fiddle around a lot to update your site.

I’ll look into people who moved from other static site generators to Hugo as well.

[andmaybegayer]

I was going to try and coerce Pelican into generating my recipe pages into the existing structure of my site, but theme stuff gets sad when you do that and it would probably be creating problems for future me to make it work.

Simply easier to spin off another subdomain. In the process of porting my recipes site to food.awful.cloud, so far it has one test recipe:

The cool kids use Hugo. I am not a cool kid.

My old recipe site was a homemade static site generator and it mysteriously broke. Writing your own static site generator is a time-honored rite of passage but eventually you want some more features.

[the-64th-gamer]

Cheese-E-Pedia is likely going to be moving from Mediawiki to a Hugo static site! Along with a visual overhaul.

Read more here.

[msweebyness]

Miraculous Second Gen- School for Monstrous Youths (My Characters)

Hey, ya’ll! These are the first set of kids from the Monstrous Youths AU! I figured I’d let Artzy post the kids for their OC couples on their own time! Enjoy! @artzychic27 @imsparky2002

Polycule:

Emma:

Voodoo Doll/Human Hybrid, Adrinette

She/Her

Age 15

As clumsy as her (bio) mom

Still has a ton of energy, but must be more careful due to voodoo powers

Struggles with some OCD

Influencer for monster-made products

Louie:

Vampire/Dragon Hybrid, Lukagami

He/Him

Age 14

Can see people’s auras

Musician like his (bio) dad, super mellow

Struggles with hoarding like his bio mom

Kinda the family therapist

Hugo:

Voodoo Doll/Vampire Hybrid, Lukanette

He/Him

Age 10

Emerging Himbo still

Wants to play sports, but can’t do contact due to voodoo powers

Sometimes forgets about said powers

Loves going bat mode

Best friends with Hector

Alison:

Dragon/Human Hybrid, Adrigami

She/Her

Age 6

Only hoards items that symbolize significant memories

As stoic as Kagami

Intelligent for her age but doesn’t talk much

Scariest dragon glare ever

Alyno:

Cecily “CeCe”:

Ghost/Stein Hybrid

She/Her

Age 16

Super driven, like her mom

Has a bit of a problem with remembering to knock before phasing through a door

Runs a monster activism news site

Always arguing with her brother

Loses track of her limbs often

Cody:

Ghost/Stein Hybrid

He/Him

Age 16

Gives off ectoplasmic static when excited

Really chill, but does meditation to help with anxiety

Plays the keyboard, and writes a comic series about a group of hybrid monster spies

Really wants to ask June out

Julerose:

Marek:

Vampire/Angel Hybrid, Bio Mom Juleka with a donor

He/They

Age 17

Incredibly shy like Jules, but has a love for all things cute

Flying helps him calm down

Learning guitar from his uncle

Will stab someone who threatens their loved ones

Dating Vicki

Myvan:

Juniper “June”:

Plant Monster/Yeti Hybrid

She/Her

Age 16

Mega blunt like her father, but with her mom’s caring demeanor

Has a fierce yeti temper and WILL throw rocks

RBF for days

Activist for the environment and monster rights

Gets tangled in her vines

Wants to ask Cody out but nerves are a thing

Hector:

Plant Monster/Yeti Hybrid

He/Him

Age 10

Gentle giant like his dad

Speaks too quiet to hear most of the time

Loves working with plants and animals

Fidgets with his vines when nervous

Best friends with Hugo

NathMarc:

Elicia:

Moth Creature/Werecat Hybrid, Bio Dad Marc with a surrogate

She/Her

Age 17

Sassiest lil missy, must be the werecat genes

A very talented sculptor

High-functioning autism, limited emotional expression

Spooks at loud noises, like Marc

Has a crush on Destiny

Kimdine:

Victoria “Vicki”:

Aquatic Monster/Werewolf Hybrid

She/Her

Age 17

Has the energy of three people

Fastest swimmer in the region, and a track and field star

Models for Mari’s fashion label, has a good number of fans

Herbo, but like, book-smart

Dating Marek

Nicolette “Nikki”:

Aquatic Monster/Werewolf Hybrid

She/Her

Age 13

Much more subdued and reserved than her fam

Voice of reason mixed with deadpan snarker

Really tech savvy, makes her own software

Really fast swimmer like her sister, and super agile

Besties with River

Alix:

River:

Manticore, Adopted at 1

They/Them

Age 13

Snarkiest lil shit, it’s why they and Nikki get along

Daredevil like their mama, they do extreme sports together

Really smart, makes top grades

Wonders about their birth parents sometimes, but loves Alix and wouldn’t trade being with her

Has to be careful with their tail spines

Breckvie:

Destiny:

Centaur/Siren Hybrid

She/Her

Age 17

Only one of the three with the power of siren song

Loves to sing but has to be careful with her powers

Proper lady like her mama, manners are impeccable

Sweetest girl alive, takes care of people out of instinct

Has a crush on Elicia

Reagan:

Centaur/Siren Hybrid

She/Her

Age 12

Only one with the full lower body of a horse

School’s sprinting champ

Herbo™️

Crazy good cook, big Kronk vibes

Daddy’s Girl

Milo:

Centaur/Siren Hybrid

He/Him

Age 9

Wants to be a vet, adopts random animals

Ray of sunshine 24/7

Has hooves and wings, and a good singer

Very perceptive for his age

Jessthony:

Warren:

Daemon, Adopted at 3

He/They

Age 15

Super shy, but has a quiet snarkiness

Mari’s design protégé, fashion sense is on point

Always fidgeting, usually has stim toys

Starting a foundation for abandoned daemon kids like himself and his Dad

Leave your thoughts in the comments and reblogs! Enjoy the monster kiddies!

[leng-m]

With the resurgence of people becoming interested in setting up their own websites and platforms, one thing I'd encourage people to look into is something called "static site generators." If you're looking to stand up a really simple site without a lot of dynamic content, this is probably the easiest way to do so.

Static-site generators allow you to automate the development of html pages that are ready to serve. The biggest difference between static sites and dynamic sites is that the latter cobbles together the page your users see by pulling all sorts of data from databases upon request time. In contrast, static sites allow you to serve ready-made html pages, making them much faster, secure, and cheaper to host.

(You do need to know a bit of back-end programming to run some simple commands and setup configuration files, but if you're already dabbling in HTML, CSS, and JS, I'm guessing you're up for the challenge.)

Here are a few resources if you want to try it out.

What is a static site generator?

A list of static site generators you can choose from

There's a lot on that list, but these are the ones I often see people using: Next.js, Jekyll, Hugo, Pelican

Places that host static sites, often for free, mostly for little charge:

Github Pages

GitLab Pages

Render

Heroku

The process of updating your website will be quite different than if you're used to platforms like Wordpress or Weebly. But if you're okay with using markdown editors and syncing your files manually, the amount of control you get back over your own content is totally worth it. There are also a lot of plugins and resources already out there to make the experience much smoother.

[lokeloski]

Thoughts on micro.blog

Not gonna lie, I’m enjoying it. It’s somewhat janky behind the scenes (as expected, it’s a small team of developers after all), but it works pretty great in syndicating posts (or cross-posting) to other networks without requiring plugins or manual modifications. More than that, it exports the whole blog as Markdown (ready to be used with Hugo if you want to) or in HTML (great for archival purposes). I’m seriously thinking about moving my blog here just because of that, as despite really liking the WordPress CMS for blogging, it effectively locks you within its system with an export that seems pretty hard to clean up and use elsewhere, and the IndieWeb plugins don’t make up for it, even if they work great.

(I won’t even touch the whole shenanigans involving the CEO but, suffice it to say, I don’t feel comfortable using a self-hosted open-source project where one person has absolute control and can cut, whenever he wants, people using the .org version from accessing automatic updates and such. This kinda defeats the purpose of the project being open-source to me, to be honest. I prefer to use a private-owned platform with good exports as “escape options” in that case.)

Anyway, I messed around with the default theme here a bit and was able to do almost everything I wanted to, which is way more than what I was able to when trying to use Ghost (before WordPress). Let me be clear, though: Ghost is an awesome platform, but the lack of blog-focused themes (especially ones that didn’t break if the post lacked an image), and the fact they only export a .json file that apparently is also hard to wrangle, kinda pushed me away. I (a non-coder) tried messing around with Ghost’s theming for a while and had a moderate amount of success, but was still pretty unhappy with the result. Here, it was way easier.

I also tried Bear Blog and, to be honest, was having a hard time deciding between it and micro.blog. However, Bear Blog only exports a .csv that, despite still being more useful than Ghost’s .json and WordPress’s .xml, is still not a markdown export, you know. The lack of comments and syndication is also a negative for me. Not that I expect tons of comments or anything, but I had blogs in the past where every once in a while someone commented and it was pretty awesome, especially when they brought new information to the topic at hand.

So, yeah, despite micro.blog not being open-source and being kinda janky, I like the options it gives me (and I also don’t have to spend time maintaining a website or fixing broken stuff in it). This post should show up on Mastodon, Tumblr, and Bluesky, and comments made under it should show up here (not sure this works with Tumblr, though), which is awesome because it puts me in touch with almost all of my friends scattered through different networks.

There were some issues with the WordPress import, so I’ll bring my older posts here manually, little by little. If I like the way stuff looks, I’ll move my “official domain” here. If I don’t, I might try that ClassicPress thing, or finally give up and force myself to learn to code so I can better use a static site generator.

[zoeythebee]

My 2023 tech stack

For enquiring minds. So I'm a hobbyist game dev, and here's all the stuff I use.

Language - C, clang, make, gdb, lldb

Graphics - SDL2, Raylib

Editor - Neovim, vscode

Graphics - Aseprite

Web dev stack

Hugo, html/css/javascript

I really want to learn more about web assembly and see if there is anyway I could use c or another language to make websites and web apps. And I have an idea for a static site generator project using c and a custom markdown language.

Shit I wanna try

I want to play with rust and wgpu, and Odin. And I want to get better with neovim.

[debian-official]

I made a neocities page using hugo as a static site generator, it's a lot of fun, can absolutely vouch for creating a blog/website this way! (I prefer jekyll to hugo generally but couldn't get it to run on mx linux because of a debian bug and completely forgot about docker..) I keep forgetting to actually regularly blog but just the act of making a blog is so much fun and I encourage everyone to do so, it's just a great way to express yourself creatively :3

oh yeah I was tripped up by jekyll as well. Luckily someone had a blog where they documented this:

sudo docker run --rm --volume="$PWD:/srv/jekyll" -p 4000:4000 -it jekyll/jekyll jekyll serve

glad to hear you're having a good time with it

[buzzybrains-software]

Embracing the Future with BuzzyBrains: A Journey through the 2024 Web Development Trends

As we sail into 2024, the digital landscape continues to evolve at an exhilarating pace. BuzzyBrains, a pioneering web development company in India, is at the forefront of harnessing these transformative trends to deliver state-of-the-art web and app solutions. Let's dive into the latest trends shaping the future of web development, mainly focusing on how companies like BuzzyBrains utilize these advancements to create innovative user experiences.

Static Websites and Progressive Web Apps

Static websites are making a strong comeback, with technologies like Jekyll, Hugo, and Gatsby leading the charge. These tools are favored for creating fast, secure, and easy-to-maintain sites, perfect for businesses looking to enhance their online presence without the complexities of dynamic content management systems​.

Alongside static websites, Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) continue to dominate, thanks to their ability to load pages swiftly, function offline, and offer an app-like experience on the web browser. PWAs ensure a seamless user experience and cater to the needs of a diverse device ecosystem, making web applications accessible across various platforms and devices​.

The Rise of Automated and Cloud-based Testing

2024 sees a significant push towards automation in testing with a focus on cloud-based solutions. Automated testing, especially across browsers and platforms, ensures a consistent user experience. Tools like LambdaTest are revolutionizing this space by enabling web and mobile application tests across over 3000+ natural environments, thus speeding up the development process and ensuring broader test coverage​.

Cybersecurity: A Top Priority

As technology advances, so does the risk associated with cyber threats. In 2024, cybersecurity remains a critical focus. Web development now involves stringent security measures to protect sensitive customer data. Ensuring that websites are equipped with SSL certificates and adhering to data protection regulations like GDPR and CCPA is more crucial than ever. This proactive approach to cybersecurity ensures that businesses can safeguard their customer data against increasing cyber threats​​.

Engaging User Interfaces with Motion UI and Dark Mode

To grab user attention and provide a memorable browsing experience, Motion UI and dark mode are trends that web developers cannot ignore. Motion UI allows developers to employ fine-grained animations and transitional effects, making interactions more engaging and visually appealing. Similarly, the popularity of dark mode continues to rise, providing users with a visually comfortable experience that reduces eye strain, particularly in low-light environments.

The Future Is Now - Are You Ready?

Adopting these trends is not just about staying current but about moving forward. For a web development company like BuzzyBrains, leveraging these technologies means delivering both websites and experiences. Whether through the interactive elements of a flutter mobile app development agency in India or the seamless user experience offered by a react native app development company in India, BuzzyBrains stands as a beacon of innovation and excellence in the web development arena.

As businesses continue to evolve with these technological advancements, the key to success lies in choosing the right partners who are aware of the latest trends and capable of implementing them. BuzzyBrains exemplifies such a partner, driving your business toward a brighter and more successful digital future.

[nehasodhani]

Website Design Tools and Technologies Every Designer Should Know in 2024

Website design is a constantly evolving field, with new tools and technologies emerging regularly to enhance the way designers create and optimize websites. In 2024, staying updated with the latest trends and tools is essential for designers looking to stay ahead of the curve and deliver exceptional user experiences. Here are some of the top website design tools and technologies that every designer should know.

Responsive Design Frameworks: With the proliferation of mobile devices, responsive design has become more important than ever. Frameworks like Bootstrap, Foundation, and Materialize provide a solid foundation for building responsive websites quickly and efficiently. These frameworks offer pre-designed components, grids, and stylesheets that streamline the development process and ensure consistency across different devices and screen sizes.

CSS Grid and Flexbox: CSS Grid and Flexbox are powerful layout systems that have revolutionized the way designers create website layouts. CSS Grid enables designers to create complex grid-based layouts with ease, allowing for precise control over the placement and alignment of elements. Flexbox, on the other hand, is ideal for creating flexible and dynamic layouts, making it easier to build responsive designs that adapt to various screen sizes and orientations.

Static Site Generators: Static site generators like Gatsby, Hugo, and Jekyll have gained popularity in recent years due to their simplicity and performance benefits. Unlike traditional content management systems (CMS) like WordPress, static site generators generate HTML files upfront, eliminating the need for server-side processing and database queries. This results in faster page load times and improved security, making static site generators an attractive option for building fast and scalable websites.

Headless CMS: Headless CMS decouples the content management system from the frontend presentation layer, allowing designers to create highly customizable and dynamic websites. With a headless CMS like Contentful or Strapi, designers can create content using familiar interfaces while developers have the flexibility to use any frontend framework or technology stack to render the content. This approach enables greater design freedom and scalability, making it easier to create personalized and immersive user experiences.

Voice User Interface (VUI) Design: As voice-activated devices like smart speakers and virtual assistants become increasingly prevalent, designers need to adapt their skills to accommodate this emerging technology. Voice user interface (VUI) design focuses on creating intuitive and natural interactions between users and voice-enabled devices. Designers must consider factors such as voice commands, speech recognition accuracy, and conversational flow when designing VUIs to ensure a seamless user experience.

Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR): AR and VR technologies have the potential to transform the way users interact with websites and digital experiences. Designers can leverage AR and VR to create immersive and interactive content that engages users on a whole new level. Whether it's providing virtual tours of properties, simulating product experiences, or gamifying user interactions, AR and VR offer endless possibilities for innovative website design.

Performance Optimization Tools: With page speed being a critical factor in user experience and search engine rankings, designers must prioritize performance optimization in their website design process. Tools like Google PageSpeed Insights, GTmetrix, and WebPageTest provide valuable insights into website performance metrics and offer recommendations for improving load times and optimizing assets. By implementing performance optimization techniques such as image compression, lazy loading, and caching, designers can ensure that their websites load quickly and smoothly across all devices and network conditions.

In conclusion, staying abreast of the latest website design tools and technologies is essential for designers looking to create cutting-edge digital experiences in 2024 and beyond. From responsive design frameworks and CSS layout systems to emerging technologies like AR and VR, embracing these tools empowers designers to push the boundaries of creativity and deliver impactful user experiences that resonate with audiences in the digital age. Whether you're a freelancer, a design agency, or a website design company in India, incorporating these tools and technologies into your workflow can help you stay competitive and deliver exceptional results for your clients.

[chipotle]

I’m not entirely sure I have any justification for rebuilding my website with Zola (a Hugo-like static site generator) other than it being fun. But it kind of is. Right now it looks almost exactly the same, but this framework might let me make more style changes down the road.

[zenesyslabs]

Bootstrap 5: What You Need to Know

Bootstrap 5, the latest iteration of the popular open-source web development tool, brings significant changes and improvements. Here’s a quick rundown:

Removal of jQuery: Bootstrap 5 bids farewell to jQuery, opting for vanilla JavaScript instead. This streamlines the framework, reducing bloat and improving performance.

Switching to Vanilla JavaScript: With jQuery out of the picture, developers can now rely on native JavaScript, simplifying code and enhancing compatibility.

Responsive Font Size: Bootstrap 5 introduces a responsive font size engine, ensuring typography adapts seamlessly across devices.

End of Internet Explorer 10 and 11 Support: IE 10 and 11 are no longer supported in Bootstrap 5, allowing developers to leverage modern JavaScript standards without compatibility concerns.

Changes in Gutter Width Unit of Measurement: The gutter width unit shifts from pixels to rems, offering more flexibility in layout design.

Elimination of Card Decks: Card decks are replaced with a more flexible grid system in Bootstrap 5, streamlining responsive design.

Navbar Optimization: The navbar component is optimized for better performance and simplified markup, with added dark dropdown functionality.

Customized SVG Icon Library: Bootstrap 5 introduces a new SVG icon library, providing developers with a wide range of reusable icons.

Switch From Jekyll to Hugo: Bootstrap 5 integrates with Hugo, a fast and flexible static site generator, for improved performance and ease of use.

Class Updates: Some CSS classes are removed or added in Bootstrap 5, enhancing the framework’s simplicity and functionality.

In conclusion, Bootstrap 5 continues to evolve, focusing on lightness, simplicity, and speed to empower developers in creating modern, responsive websites.

For More Information Read Blog : EVERYTHING YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT BOOTSTRAP 5

[bitternest]

I’m all for relying less on discord, but part of the reason that forums were abandoned is that they are horribly, horribly insecure and difficult to lock down (also... really unsexy, as unpretty points out). How many former forum-goers are going to go into convulsions if I mention Baba Ji? The moment your forum gains over a few thousand visitors you become a magnet for spam bots. I can’t speak as an administrator of a fast-moving discord, but as a forum admin? Yeah, I’d rather fucking not again. Ever. Hosted solutions were marginally better but also... could just shut you down if you became a big enough problem. 

Even with various flavors of captcha (which has entire communities dedicated to circumventing it), this is not something casual, amateur users ever want to deal with and the fact of the matter is that even niche communities these days can balloon to thousands of users overnight. 

Fundamentally, tech has moved away from PHP because it is horrendously insecure and no one wants to deal with its shit. There used to be a running joke that the first 100 CVEs for a new year were reserved for PHP. It’s also why you could just get shut down because hosting companies, lazy as they are, had a leg to stand on - they don’t want a their servers to be a source of spam bots and god help you if someone got shell access. All that cpanel and plesk stuff? Hosting companies are dumping their business because it literally costs more to properly secure it than they make. And then they get bought up by other companies underpaying a poor admin. 

I’m all for putting valid information like documentation into a static site of some kind but like... the problems described in the 2nd screenshot? Those aren’t technology problems. Those are human problems. And they happened on forums as well. Literally remove “channel” and replace with “category.”

Should Discord be used for everything? Fuck no. For anything that needs to stick around, jam that elsewhere. But as a discussion platform? You’re not gonna catch me moving back to forums.  

Also, its 2022. You shouldn’t be paying for hosting. Look up AWS S3 hosting or Netlify or any other modern solution. Buy a domain name, write a simple static site with Hugo and you’re off to the races. 

[pradeep]

Sometimes I fancy hand-building websites.

I had successfully re-deployed Hugo, a static site generator; hosted on GitHub with Netlify.

I then tried to implement MicroPub there and essentially went crazy trying to follow the steps. Crazy enough to tear down the whole thing and getting over my fancy.

In the real world, things must be as simple as they are as here on Tumblr or at least on Blot. Blot doesn't support Indian credit cards.