I’m taking advantage of the website update to take a moment to sharing how I did with.

Objectives

Painless maintenance

Security, plateform update, transfer

Easy to update

Cheap to run

Excellent performance

and cheap to maintain as possible, enshuring an online presence and a no brainer update process. In a world where form counts.

Lower priorities

History

Stone age

The first website I created in 1995 was made by hands using Windows Notepad to edit the HTML files (JavaScript and CSS were just invented but not wide spread) and hosted on a server, somewhere, provided by my ISP. A few years later, WYSIWYG tools like Microsoft Frontpage and Macromedia Dreamweaver gave more people the opportunity to create appealing (for the time) websites. I used Frontpage to create my first commercial website for EBP in 1998.

The WordPress era

After using sevral tools, I’ve been stuck with WordPress for more than a decade (The last website I created is Altoviz). Whatever your needs are, WordPress is probably able to fit them.

The solution

Tech stack : Hugo with PaperMod hosted on GitHub

Some advices

The better, the harder

Having too much criteria and too high standards will make