New Static Site With Hugo

Why I Chose Hugo

Recently, I decided to update my father’s website, which was originally built using WordPress. My experience with WordPress wasn’t ideal—it was slow and required constant updates, which made maintenance a hassle.

After building a site with Jekyll, I was impressed by how fast and customizable it was. That led me to Hugo, which is similar to Jekyll but even faster when creating static sites. Since I wanted to build a fast, reliable website for my father’s business, Hugo was the obvious choice.

Choosing a Theme

For the site, I found a theme that fit perfectly with my father’s business: the Bizcraft Theme from Gethugothemes. The theme is fast, SEO-friendly, and generally worked well.

However, there were a few aspects I wanted to customize, like the header and the fact that the theme only supported Font Awesome icons. I wanted to use my own SVG icons instead, as Font Awesome’s icon set is somewhat limited. If you’re interested in my changes, you can check out this GitHub repository where I’ve documented the modifications I made to the theme. Look for comments marked with my-edit-start and my-edit-end to see the changes.