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Simple but modern website (monero.town)

submitted 8 months ago by chevy9294@monero.town to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I want to make my own website, like a blog where I talk about tech and tutorials and such. Something like https://kerkour.com and https://lukesmith.xyz. Any ideas for simple but modern design?

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[–] passepartout@feddit.de 22 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (5 children)

Those examples you listed are not really modern imo. I'm not an UI/UX expert though.

I used Hugo to build my personal website. You can also easily build blogs with it. The difference to the usual approach is that you "code" the website in markdown which makes it super easy. Hugo then generates the html and css for you, which gets statically hosted. Check out the showcases and themes if you're interested. I used a theme called papermod, it's pretty common.

[–] kill_dash_nine@lemm.ee 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I would also second Hugo which I use for my personal site and blog which I haven’t updated for a long time. Nice thing is that it has a minimal footprint of needing to watch out for updates unlike something like Wordpress which was known for being vulnerable stable if left unmaintained. It’s mostly looking out for old themes with vulnerable javascript.

Another popular options is Jekyll and I honestly can’t remember why I picked Hugo over it but if you don’t need dynamic content, why make things more complex?

[–] chevy9294@monero.town 5 points 8 months ago

Thank you! I made my own static site generator and ony missing thing was nice theme. PaperMod is beautiful, thank you!

[–] Urist@lemmy.ml 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Agree on Hugo being easy to work with. I also think having a static website is a good idea in general due to the low resource usage. My Raspberry Pi, even though it is loaded with many web applications, always manages to serve my hugo website blazingly fast. If you need rich content, for example videos, you can always embed them in some way. Another option I tried that worked okay is Pelican, though I use Hugo now since it seems the better option for me. In general I think any static site generator with templates will do the job. Even a minimalist solution such as pandoc could do it, though it would be much more manual work to get working.

[–] Tetsuo@jlai.lu 5 points 8 months ago

Static websites are also cool for security.

So many small websites gets defaced everyday because of some vuln brought by the dynamic aspect of the site.

[–] yournamehere@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago

hugo last updated their user reviews on their page in 2019.

[–] TCB13@lemmy.world -2 points 8 months ago

About Hugo and similar solutions: https://lemmy.world/comment/4957077