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@@ -1,49 +1,12 @@ # Basic Web Theme -Basic Web Theme is based on the web design I've arrived at over the -past few months for all of my websites, after spending the past -several years chipping away useless design elements from my sites. +No one is impressed by your cool web design. -The goals of Basic Web Theme is to provide usablility on desktop and -mobile, without distractions. - -Ideally, the theme will only provide styling rules where doing so -improves upon the usablility of the system defaults. For example, to -use a readable column width on wide devices, scale content to mobile -viewports, and provide minimal styling for block quotes, code blocks -and tables. - -This Hugo theme implementation of Basic Web Theme includes templates -for: - -- homepage with an option to list children from another page - -- list pages with full or truncated content - -- single pages (e.g. a single post) - -- standalone pages (e.g. about page, signup form, etc.) - -- taxonomy partial template to list taxonomy terms (e..g tags) at - bottom of page - -- footer with auto-generate menu and "last updated" date - -- taxonomy term list page - -- taxonomy posts list page - -- shortcode for showing a table from a data template - -- shortcode for including a newsletter signup form - -- 404 page - -The example site gives shows how to use all of the templates in -the Hugo theme, shows how to use taxonomy, menus, shortcodes, and data -templates, and demonstrates the styling of various elements. - - -Page Kinds: https://gohugo.io/templates/section-templates/#page-kinds +The Basic Web Theme is simple, minimal and usable. +The goal of this theme is to use default browser styles as much as +possible. Styles are tweaked to improve usability: limiting column +width, scaling for mobile devices, making columns look nice, scrolling +code blocks properly, etc. +Learn more: https://www.basicwebtheme.com |