Back when I finished moving this blog from WordPress to Hugo I read about a number of other static site generators before I chose Hugo. Hugo is very popular and very capable, but it does have its oddities. Eleventy (aka 11ty) is another very popular framework and I felt I needed to understand it better.

While converting this site from Hugo to Zola, I elected to dispense with Tailwind; partially because I wanted to try using plain CSS and partially because Zola and Tailwind don’t make an easy pairing. Along the way, I discovered that I don’t like Tailwind as much as I thought I did.

I’ve made the switch from Hugo to Zola mostly because I had come to dread making substantial changes to this site. Go’s template language is too weird and the way I implemented Tailwind is too fragile. Zola and plain old CSS have cleared all that up.

Zola is a Static Site Generator very similar to Hugo. In fact, its author, Vincent Prouillet, created Zola partially because he hated the Go Template language but liked Hugo. Since I’m in the same boat, I had to give Zola a try and I’m generally pretty happy with it.