2019 Blog engine migration

Moving from Pelican to Hugo

2019-12-08 1 min read Informatique

Previous blog engine

I was using Pelican for content management and templating engine.

I wrote my own basic theme based on the SemanticUI framework.

Screenshots

The landing page. Nice clean simple design, but too much attention on the picture, not enough useful information for a landing page.
The landing page. Nice clean simple design, but too much attention on the picture, not enough useful information for a landing page.
The blog posts index. I had only two categories and they each had their little icon.
The blog posts index. I had only two categories and they each had their little icon.

What I liked

I wrote my own template files in such a way that the output source code looked super clean
I wrote my own template files in such a way that the output source code looked super clean

What I didn’t like

  • The landing page contents
  • Maintaining my own custom HTML/CSS theme

The new blog engine and theme

I migrated to Academic, a theme for Hugo.

I filled in more information about me on the landing page The new picture brings less attention to the clothing and more on a friendly-professional headshot.

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Alexandre de Verteuil
Alexandre de Verteuil
Senior Solutions Architect

I teach people how to see the matrix metrics.
Monkeys and sunsets make me happy.

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