I think I’ve found the ideal theme for my Hugo site. Mainroad is relatively simple in design, the layout is roughly what I was looking for, and it’s easier to customise. It still has tags and categories features that are essential for a site hosting technical documentation. I spent around six hours learning how the template works, re-arranging the content and tweaking the CSS to make it as clean as my MkDocs site.
Netlify CMS and Continuous Deployment for Hugo Having experimented with this, I think Netlify’s idea of tacking a CMS onto a static site generator is tailored for situations where multiple developers, through Continuous Deployment, are providing a corporate site for which the content is being edited by non-technical users. At least it appears that way, because it takes a lot of work to develop the site and configure the CMS for anything more generic than the template provided, and an individual developer working on this as a personal project would most likely dispense with the CMS entirely and modify the files in the /content directory themselves (I’ll explain why).
