Hey Kaushal,

Thanks a ton for these ideas.

Yeah, the 'Art Gallery' page itself will be just the JS based project I will deploy, but I'll keep that in mind to just maybe roll with custom template static generated sites for the other sections since I think the only way to get close to that look and feel is to run with one of the ideas you mentioned.

Thanks again :)

Sam

On Fri, Jan 21, 2022, at 10:11 AM, Kaushal Modi wrote:
> Hi Samuel,
> 
> On Sun, Jan 16, 2022 at 12:06 PM Samuel Banya <sbanya@fastmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I am planning to use Emacs to create Org Mode files for the few main sections of my site that aren't the Art Gallery page itself.
> >
> > I'm trying to figure out how to get a modern Wordpress looking Org generated HTML page that rivals pages like this:
> >
> > https://karlkopinski.com/
> > https://wyliebeckert.com/
> > http://www.brucepennington.co.uk/
> > https://turnislefthome.com/
> > https://davidmattingly.com/sketches/
> > https://www.mathewborrett.com/
> > https://www.stephenfabian.com/gallery
> 
> Here's my personal opinion: Org mode is great at concisely formatting
> content, so I format my blog content in Org. But then I leave it up to
> static site generator giants like Hugo to make the site look good. The
> kind of look you want on your website could be achieved by one of the
> themes: https://themes.gohugo.io/
> Static site generators have tons of other benefits like putting the
> right meta data, easily creating RSS, ATOM feeds, integrating
> pre-generated search index, post-processing images, etc. before
> uploading to the server, minifying CSS, JS, HTML, etc.
> 
> [ I am giving examples of using Hugo because that's what I use. You
> can pick any static site generator and a compatible theme. ]
> 
> > Would be curious to know everyone's thoughts on this if there's a cool way to do this via Org Mode :)
> 
> I would focus on:
> 
> 1. Content writing in Org mode
> 2. Rendering/prettifying the website using CSS, templating, etc in a
> static site generator.
> 
> Of course you can do everything in Org mode and many people do it, but
> then you need to design CSS, JS, etc yourself.
> ( I am not a web designer, so I took the static site generator
> approach and started learning more about CSS and templating from
> available themes. )
> 
> 
> 
> Kaushal
>