Tag: Frontend

Links to additional resources for ‘Making the postmodern web’

Observations on what you need to build a website that will be found: a presentation for the Midland MakerPlace. Unfortunately it’s been a slow summer at the MakerPlace and there were no attendees. Hopefully a future offering will get better take-up.

With browsers having built-in “Open link in new tab” functionality, it doesn’t make sense to break a basic web idiom (the back button) on a whim. Auto-opening link in a new tab/window breaks the back button and is unnecessary (because users have the ability to make that choice for themselves).

It seems I’m doing more front-end web work than is ideal these days. I say that because I tend to prefer technical aspects of web development…

I’ve ended up doing some frontend web design after all, and have also enjoyed working with the Hugo static website generator.

So far the upshot of this is to not expect a simple Export/Import process with WordPress, especially when it comes to the Media Library, if one wants to rebuild a site at the same domain, rather than a domain move, with the previous domain still active.

Using a Hugo module starter and Netlify for Hugo module development