Ask HN: Can you show me examples of static site design?
2•firefax•4mo ago
I am redoing my personal web page, and looking for examples of well done static sites, personal or professional for inspiration.
More focused on the design aspect than particular tech but feel free to share how you arrived at your design.
Comments
PaulHoule•4mo ago
Static on the server or static on the client?
I am writing a new SSG (really a meta-SSG) because all the others make me depressed when I start to use them and I never wind up launching a site. (For instance, is Markdown any easier than writing HTML, really? I can find all kinds of templates for Hugo and they look like :poop_emotion or :dog_emoji)
My plan is for sidebars and navigation elements to be client-side dynamic because it is just crazy to respin every page on the site because I added a new page and now all the sidebars need to be rebuilt. The sidebars could be a svelte app or they could just be plain HTML imported with HTMX. It doesn’t matter much —- there’s going to be a Python system that packs up the metadata from all the sites.
The basic plan is to build on top of bootstrap with SCSS and not really put a lot of effort into chrome but rather be free to have big images (photo galleries), math with polyfills, visualizations with D3.js, etc.
firefax•4mo ago
I was thinking just raw css/html (no js) but if you have designs you like feel free, no one else seems to have
PaulHoule•4mo ago
I am writing a new SSG (really a meta-SSG) because all the others make me depressed when I start to use them and I never wind up launching a site. (For instance, is Markdown any easier than writing HTML, really? I can find all kinds of templates for Hugo and they look like :poop_emotion or :dog_emoji)
My plan is for sidebars and navigation elements to be client-side dynamic because it is just crazy to respin every page on the site because I added a new page and now all the sidebars need to be rebuilt. The sidebars could be a svelte app or they could just be plain HTML imported with HTMX. It doesn’t matter much —- there’s going to be a Python system that packs up the metadata from all the sites.
The basic plan is to build on top of bootstrap with SCSS and not really put a lot of effort into chrome but rather be free to have big images (photo galleries), math with polyfills, visualizations with D3.js, etc.
firefax•4mo ago