Ditching SSGs for a hand-crafted Website
The author has transitioned from using Hugo as a static site generator to creating a more personalized hand-crafted website. This change has allowed for greater control over the HTML and CSS, enhancing the author's learning experience. The process involves using server-side includes to manage repetitive elements efficiently.
- ▪The author used Hugo for a long time but found it limiting in terms of personal creativity.
- ▪They simplified the HTML and CSS code by using various online validation tools.
- ▪Server-side includes were implemented to avoid repetitive coding for common elements like headers.
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| Original publisher | Rz01 |
| Canonical URL | https://rz01.org/handcrafted-html/ |
| Publication time | Fri, 29 May 2026 11:08:50 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-29T11:20:00.374Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-29T11:20:02.986Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | gQUeQ4O4P_JT |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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Ditching SSGs for a hand-crafted Website Posted on 2026-05-29 Introduction Ok, this is not really a 100% hand-crafted website but new articles and some other parts are now. Here’s the story: I used Hugo as a static site generator (SSG) for a long time and started to get bored. With Hugo, I was also much closer to the final product than, say, with WordPress, but it didn’t feel like I was personally creating the website. So I simply took the HTML code generated by Hugo as a basis, copied it to a new directory, and moved it to a new Git repository. Then I started simplifying the HTML code and the CSS file and adapting them to my needs. For this, I used the following online tools: W3C Markup Validation Service - The classic that pretty much everyone knows.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Rz01.
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