Hugo

The End of the Beginning I wrote the last post as I was getting ready to ship the new design. I ran into a devil of a problem that I would be entirely remiss if I didn’t mention it here. As I was going through the pages in the site with Hugo server running locally, I noticed that there was one slight problem with a couple of pages on the site. In light mode, the background was white. The rest of the site had a nicely warm off-white background that I found lovely. My first blog post, and the “About” page, broke the style - the background was pure white. ‘#FFFFFF’ in HTML/CSS color code. This must not be! ...

Pardon the Mess - Under construction. When I decided to restart my website, I fell back into old design styles and habits. I’m a system administrator, but I do have a history of building websites. I’ve never been a great designer, and the restart of the site that I hand-coded looked ROUGH. It was a late ’90s mess of menus and unnecessary navigation. I laid the base design into a Hugo construct, pushed it to Netlify (thanks, guys, I get to have my site on the free tier!) and there it sat for more than a month, sad and old. ...