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Headline:
Creating my Site Theme from XMin
author: robyn :: 06 Aug 2025 
tags: smallweb, indieweb, blog, hugo, theme, css

Why my Own Theme?
When I settled on as the static generator for my first stab at a 2025-era small/indie web site, I was slowly but surely reminded of how no, you can't in fact just build a HUGO site without a theme.

Whether or not that is the way to go (I would argue that it is not; see also Bruce Wray’s excellent article on ), that's where we are. I would prefer if a Hugo site worked without a theme - if it spit out barebones HTML, basically - and we could just slap 0bc3cef704d15ca8.png