Ask HN: Which static site generator has the best themes?

7 points·pdevr··6 comments

Out of the box or provided by someone else. As an example, Hugo has these: https://themes.gohugo.io/

Related question to those who built your sites using static site generators: How did you find the theme for your site? Did you go with what is available? Or did you design it yourself?

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I use hugo and coder theme. Works for my website.

https://github.com/luizdepra/hugo-coder/

https://www.rasikjain.com

Thanks for sharing your theme. Hugo seems to be the favorite, so far. I am wondering if it is because of Hugo is better at site generation, or because of the availability of good themes.

Personally I built a simple theme from scratch, but it really depends on what your use case is. A personal blog is different than a product landing page. Short of looking appalling though, I would recommend focusing on the content of the page instead. If the content is good you'll get eyeballs regardless of the looks, not so much so the other way around.

Agree that it will eventually depend on the specific use case, and that good content tops everything else.

Sharing your way of doing it helps. Thanks again.

I use Hugo which has a themes gallery [0], which I assume is common (Edit: and as you already noted above - I should read more carefully!). I perused that for something acceptable and then tweaked it a bit. The result [1] could be better but is good enough for my purposes.

[0] https://themes.gohugo.io/

[1] https://paperstack.com/

Thanks for sharing your theme. It looks good to me. The number of good themes available varies, as you know, for different static generators.

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