2019 Blog engine migration
Moving from Pelican to Hugo
![](/post/2019-blog-engine-migration/featured_hufef21eec9134c3fa78a532ec01bf4d8c_9035_3edafdfaab8f757ed912cc3bec5d2db5.webp)
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.](/post/2019-blog-engine-migration/_hubb7ba5f29f12260e529519168d829c52_569940_90a9f11cedee22e99fb3b1a1c3828321.webp)
![The blog posts index. I had only two categories and they each had their little icon.](/post/2019-blog-engine-migration/Screenshot_2019-12-08%20Blogue%20%E2%80%94%20Alexandre%20de%20Verteuil_hue32f86772cbf73fc907a7527a208cef5_74825_6249d79d15a49b43c25a90fb19fbef5f.webp)
What I liked
![I wrote my own template files in such a way that the output source code looked super clean](/post/2019-blog-engine-migration/screenshot%202019-12-08%202229_huc23359f7d349a88e52af637bdd366533_203300_def9da9c4b02e5521e4bf3d12decfcdf.webp)
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.