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Sheldon • Edited

I've been steadily working on my site @ sheldonhull.com having migrated from Wordpress->Ghost->Jekyll->Hugo. I like Hugo, though it's been a challenge to learn.

I'm pretty happy with the initial creative photography implementation using FancyBox v3. Definitely a steep learning curve for customization for someone new to it, so I've been limited in my time to do more customization.
I've also included a docs page for stuff I've steadily added to as a compilation of things related to PowerShell, instead of blogging on each one.

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Tim Smith

Your landing page kind of reminds me of the landing page on the Avett Brother's website. It's been a while since I've seen a bottom nav. Just curious, was there a reason you chose to do that? I've thought about it in the past but been concerned people wouldn't see it.

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Sheldon

I leverage the hermit theme and customized. To be honest I probably would pin at the top, but it was a low priority compared to the rest of the work I did so I never got around to customizing the css and show/hide animation. I prefer top nav as well and probably will adjust when I figure it out.

My current tweak priorities are to:

  • Finish algolia search integration. This has stumped me and I've been putting off.
  • improve creative gallery with custom captions yet still leverage srcset for dynamically generated image sizes.

Thanks for the feedback