# A new design

DevFeed: [A new design](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/a-new-design-34877.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://pine64.org/2023/04/13/a_new_design/>)

Published: 2023-04-13T00:00:00Z

Content type: release

Language: en

Sources: [Community blog on PINE64](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/community-blog-on-pine64.md>)

Topics: [Website](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/website.md>), [Hugo](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/hugo.md>), [WordPress](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/wordpress.md>), [Markdown](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/markdown.md>), [JavaScript](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/javascript.md>), [HTML](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/html.md>)

Tags: [beta](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/beta.md>), [community](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/community.md>), [hugo](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hugo.md>), [javascript](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/javascript.md>), [markdown](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/markdown.md>), [pine64](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/pine64.md>), [redesign](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/redesign.md>), [website-redesign](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/website-redesign.md>), [wordpress](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/wordpress.md>)

## AI overview

PINE64 announces a beta preview of a community website redesign. The redesign is intended to encourage community contributions and feedback, and it uses Hugo to generate static HTML pages from Markdown and other content formats. It also aims to reduce JavaScript and external connections, including by using locally stored YouTube previews.

## Source excerpt

As it was teased with the March update and the December blog post of last year, there is a community website redesign being worked on. Launched at beta.pine64.org we're proud to give a very early insight of what the redesign currently looks like. To give a warning in advance, in this preview of the redesign, you will find a lot of unfinished parts, run into issues and maybe there are things you liked at the old (current) page more. That's what the beta launch is for. While the old website was run on Wordpress and maintained by a handful of people, the idea of the new community website redesign after being started as a project of a single person is, that everyone can contribute to the community website. That's why the redesign is launched early: to gather feedback, to gather ideas and to involve everyone interested in contributing so that there will be a nicely working website available later. Some technical details To give an insight into some technical details: The former website was running on Wordpress. While easy to use, this also means there was a lot of heavy Javascript, connections to third-party websites (like Google fonts) constantly had to be prevented by adjusting site settings and if people found typos in the blog post then admins had to be asked to fix them. The redesign tries to go a different way. It uses Hugo ("The world's fastest framework for building websites") and it creates static html pages from content formats such as Markdown, Pandoc and AsciiDoc (see Hugo - Content Formats for the supported formats). In fact this blog post you are reading is written in Markdown - show and edit this blog post under a_new_design.md. The redesign tries to avoid using Javascript as much as possible. Javascript is currently only used on the front page to click between the slider images, as well as the YouTube preview (more about this below). The slider will work just fine with disabled Javascript. There are no CDNs used in the redesign. No Google Fonts, no extern