From 41420c0e32cba69d4f4e19175bd3350fed427275 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Prefetch
Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2022 11:36:46 +0100
Subject: Publish "Website adventures" part 2 about HTML and CSS

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 toc: true
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+Published on 2022-11-15, last updated on 2022-11-20.
+
 Making and managing this personal website has been an adventure.
 In this series, I go over the technical challenges I've encountered
 and philosophical decisions I've made,
 and I review some of the tools I've used along the way.
-This is part 1, with more posts coming soon.
+This is part 1, followed by [part 2](/blog/2022/website-adventures-basics/),
+with more coming.
 
 
 
@@ -201,14 +204,17 @@ after a few small tweaks like adding a navigation bar at the top of the page:
 ```
 
 On the one hand, Hugo provides the convenient `.TableOfContents` variable
-at the cost of control, unlike Zola, where we had to do it manually.
-On the other hand, Hugo doesn't use block-based templates
-and hence lacks a nice inheritance system like Zola's.
-If you want to reuse a snippet, you put it in a file e.g. `navbar.html`
+at the cost of control, unlike Zola, where we had to do it
+manually. ~~On the other hand, Hugo doesn't use block-based templates
+and hence lacks a nice inheritance system like Zola's~~
+[I stand corrected](https://lobste.rs/s/x2bknz/adventures_making_my_website_static_site#c_jbmpl2),
+Hugo can do [Zola-style blocks](https://gohugo.io/templates/base/),
+but it's hard to figure this out on your own.
+If you want to reuse a snippet, you typically put it in a file e.g. `navbar.html`
 and include it as `{% raw %}{{ partial "navbar.html" . }}{% endraw %}`.
 Note the dot at the end... I'll get to that.
-Overall, Hugo's approach to organizing templates feels "dumber" than Zola's,
-although, to be fair, my website had become a lot more complicated by then.
+Overall, Hugo's template organization feels "dumber" than Zola's,
+although my requirements had become a lot more complicated by then.
 
 Like most SSGs, Hugo uses an external template engine,
 namely the [`text/template`](https://pkg.go.dev/text/template) Go package.
@@ -472,3 +478,10 @@ Personally, compared to those two, I wouldn't recommend Hugo,
 but for some people (probably Go developers)
 it just might be what they're looking for.
 
+EDIT: There exists an SSG called [Soupault](https://soupault.app/)
+that has interesting alternative take on site generation.
+Its creator [pitched it to me](https://lobste.rs/s/x2bknz/adventures_making_my_website_static_site#c_cgemzs),
+and coincidentally its website includes [this comparison](https://soupault.app/tips-and-tricks/comparison)
+with the SSGs discussed in this article.
+Like I said, I don't intend to migrate again, like, *ever*,
+so I'm writing this to spread the word about an, in my opinion, intriguing project.
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