I Made A New Hugo Site

Hello world! As you can see, this is a new site. I have loved using Codeberg and Codeberg Pages with Codeberg’s Woodpecker CI instance, but I feel guilty of using a lot of their system resources as I like to push tests to production. I feel that if I use Gitlab (who are significantly bigger), I won’t have this and also with the less able features, I will be forced to locally test changes and push working commits. This will help the overall production workflow for my website.

I have also taken a change in SSG (Static Site Generator) as I have got a knowledge of setting up Hugo on Gitlab with Pages, whereas 11ty and Zola, I do not. This change means that I have got to port all my blosts over, changing the front matter (not too much). This also kills one blost idea that I have on my todo list.

Here’s a couple of screenshots of my new site.

Sorry for that flashbang, at present, my Hugo site is using the Archie theme, I may use another theme along the way, but with Hugo you can change theme with very little edits required which is a lot easier than 11ty and Zola. Also at the minute, I have got the light/dark switcher as toggle, so it is for users to decide, but I am thinking I will change this to automatic, which will follow a users’ system setting. With these changes, I feel that my site could potentially grow, I just need to iron out a few issues and will keep working on these.

This blog post is just a brief overview of what my reasoning behind my move (again) are and explain what the current state of my site are. I want to write more and to do that, I need to find a system that works for me, and I’m hoping that this is the way. By using Gitlab Pages, I am in no way leaving Codeberg, I still plan to use Codeberg to host all my projects, just not my website, that way I reduce my usage of their CI. With the limited functionality of the Gitlab CI, I am already feeling more inclined to use neovim and testing my changes locally on my laptop. I may host a static site (hand coded) over on my Codeberg pages but just as a way to play with HTML and share useful information.

I hope this blost has been useful or at least enlightened you to my thoughts, hopefully it won’t be too long before I can fully publish the site, but for now that’s it and I’ll catch you in the next one. Bye!