https://ivogasparini.ch/tags/web-development/Recent content in Web-Development on Ivo GaspariniHugoen© 2025, Ivo GaspariniSun, 15 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://ivogasparini.ch/projects/build/Sun, 15 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://ivogasparini.ch/projects/build/<p>I built this site to learn, share and connect. To share and connect, a blog format made sense. To learn, I wanted to build it from the ground up, or at least as much as reasonable. I also wanted to keep costs low, ideally below 5 CHF/month, which is about 1/3 of the price of most site builders but without any of the limitations.</p> <h2 id="tech-stack">Tech stack</h2> <p>For the frontend, I went with Hugo, a static site generator written in Go. I feel like static sites are underrated these days. Raw HTML from the server is fast and efficient. I picked the beautiful <a href="https://github.com/nanxiaobei/hugo-paper" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">hugo-paper</a> theme and modded it a bit (contact form, multi-language support, sticky header, and a bunch of other tweaks).</p>