classless blog

This is a hugo-theme for blogs.

It is extremly minimalistic and only features standard html - no javascript or custom css. This makes it very accessible, responsive and privacy friendly (there is no tracking at all).

To make it also look good a classless-css framework can be included.

Demo

A demo of this theme (with the default “Water.css” framework) is hosted on Gitlab pages.

Choose a framework

Some cool classess-css frameworks are:

• Water.css
• Classless.css
• Sakura
• Marx
• AtriCSS

But there are many more out there.

Use a framework

Such classess-css frameworks provide stylesheets that can be included into this theme in two ways, both with different pros and cons:

Via url in the config

Add an url to a stylesheet into your sites config like this:

In your config.yaml:

params:
  stylesheetUrl: "https://unpkg.com/sakura.css/css/sakura.css"

Or in your config.toml:

[params]
stylesheetUrl = "https://unpkg.com/sakura.css/css/sakura.css"

Pros

• little effort
• small diffs when changing the framework
• will update automatically if the framework is updated

Cons

• you are dependend on a third party, which might go down without notice
• the third party might track your users

File in static/css/

Download the stylesheet and put it into the sites static folder as static/css/stylesheet.css. If this file exists then the option stylesheetUrl from the config will be ignored.

Pros

• full controll over what is part of your site
• you can overwrite the file if you want
• you can use your own stylesheets, even if they are not publicly available
• you can get creative with using git submodules or makefiles to automate the process

Cons

• changing frameworks is more work
• foreign css-code is now in your repo

Custom parameters

There is only one standard parameter for posts: If you want a cover image, add it like this:

image: path/to/image.jpg

Most of the time the path will just be coverimage.jpg or so. This assumes that your posts are organized as page-bundles (which is the most sensible way anyways). Have a look at the exampleSite to see how this would look.

Ideas for improvement

• Add ci tests
• Automatically create Screenshots in the CI
• Have versions of the demo site online for different css-frameworks
• Make sure the project can be internationalized well