So far, the emphasis has been on managing active projects, but what happens with a project when its active development phase is over? It either goes on stage, or into a box.
Changing Horses
After spending half a day diving deeper into Nikola’s theme engine and the archive of available themes, I’ve had second thoughts about hitching my cart to the Nikola pony. It’s perfectly functional, but to get anything close to the layout I’m aiming for, I would have to build an awful lot of the front end myself. For both the desktop and mobile contexts. And if I’m being honest, I don’t have much interest in that particular adventure. I’d rather adapt something that’s already close. So here I go, back into the static site generator dating market.
Some Horses Are Unridable
The whole point of Web UI themes, IMO, is to save the casual user from having to write their own. And after spending the afternoon customizing the Lightbi theme, I’ve realized that it’s nice, but not close enough. Yes, I could get it to work, but I don’t want to work that hard - not on web skinning - so I went shopping for a new horse. Again…