Hugo Themes

Some interesting Hugo themes for Web pages

Learning Objectives

  • Find useful hugo themes that allow documenting projescts.

Topics covered

When creating Web pages often you are looking for an easy way to organize documentation tha is in a more structured form mthan simply a blog.

For this reason the following hugo themes may be useful:

Docsy

  • Docsy: https://themes.gohugo.io/docsy/

    • cons: no modules, needs tto switch from master to main
    • pro: nice front page, we used this a lot, this Web sit is create with it

Dot

Syna

Compose

Learn

Hugo Clarity

A nice Blog theme

Dynamic Web Site (non documentation focused)

Although not a documentation oriented Wen page, The following recieved our attention as it show a very dynamic look. However it could be a bit distracting.

So one could develop two repos. One as frontpage with a splashy theme, the oster tha just focusses on the documentation

Converting Hugo to ePub

The following git repo contains documentation on how to convert hugo Web sites to epub

An article in german is available at

The following script stes this up for you automatically:

git clone https://github.com/weitblick/epub.git
cd epub
cd exampleSite
mkdir themes
cd themes
git clone https://github.com/weitblick/epub.git
cd epub 
rm -rf .git
rm -rf exampleSite   # remove the example site in the theme
cd ../..
hugo
bash ./deploy.sh
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