Building my new website

The third iteration of my personal website is here! For more information on my previous websites, read the about section.

This time, I chose to build my website using the Hugo static site generator. Having previously used Jekyll, I was already fairly used to how SSGs work.

When it comes to building a website with Hugo, most people decide on using a community made theme. Themes in Hugo provide the structure and layout of the website, dictating what content is displayed and how it is organised.

For this website, I found the Rusty Typewriter theme to be the perfect fit. It provides a comprehensive blogging and taxonomy system that would allows me to write and organise articles. I would like to thank Matheus Queiroz, the author of the theme, for his work.

There were a few remaining features that I wanted so I forked the repository and created my own variation of the theme, aptly named Rusty Typewriter Better. I implemented improved blog SEO, links to social media, improved image and text formatting alongside other visual enhancements.

Overall, I am very happy with the end result.