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Yash Karandikar 2021-11-20 15:39:23 -06:00
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This is my first blog post.

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title = "I migrated my site to Zola: this is how it went"
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Last week I migrated this site to [Zola](https://www.getzola.org/).
The migration was mostly painless, but converting the site from HTML to markdown was definitely very tedious.
## Before
Before the migration, I just wrote my site in HTML by hand. However, this eventually lead to some spaghetti code and whenever I needed to make a new page, I would have to copy the `<head>` tags every time.
Zola provided me with a template system that was very familiar to me, having done a lot of work in Flask and Django, and Markdown is also super easy and fun to write.
## During
During the migration, I made a lot of decisions that other people would not have necessarily agreed with. One of Zola's major selling points, for example, is their wide variety of easy-to-use [themes](https://www.getzola.org/themes/).
I, however, opted to roll my own CSS, simply because all the themes seemed too bland for me, and a lot of them were ones that I had seen in the wild (like the [juice](https://www.getzola.org/themes/juice/) theme that Trunk uses for their [website](https://trunkrs.dev/)). I wanted something that was unique and something that represented me (part of the reason I chose [TARDIS blue](https://encycolorpedia.com/003b6f) for the background gradient).
Another thing was that the old site had varying formats for projects. For example, [SmeaRS](@/projects/smears.md) used to have its own, seperate project page, while all the others were just sections in the main page. With Zola, though, I had to make a seperate page for each project.
## After
After the migration, I'm super proud of how the site looks. It used to look very bland and boring, and now it looks very professional.
However, there are still a couple of things I still want to add, such as:
1. Independent, reusable theme
2. Move the footer to a sidebar on mobile
3. Automatically list sections in the footer
For now, though, this site does everything I could ask for.
This site's source code is avaiable [on my cgit](https://git.karx.xyz/site.git). If you are interested in contributing to this site, feel free to shoot me an email with an idea or a patch.
-- karx