Fab Lab ULB Theme

License

This template was written by Nicolas H.-P. De Coster (Vigon) in 2023, originally for the Fab Zero ULB course (as an alternative to MkDocs) and the Fab Lab ULB website.

It was designed to be :

easy to maintain by “not-computer-people”, MarkDown-based.
fast : Hugo was selected after an interesting discussion with Kris in Amsterdam during the Fab Lab Instructor Bootcamp and some tests and comparisions on the static websites generators on jamstack
filled with features (see below)

This template is (more or less) maintained inside : template GitLab - template website .

This website template supports :

A LaTeX-like style largely inspired by LaTeX Now and adapted by NDC, using the iconic Latin Modern fonts family.
Bootstrap, an fast a responsive framework for building websites.
Font Awesome, to integrate fancy and beautiful icons easily
jQuery, a rich JavaScript library (used for the dropdown menu)
MathJax, to render LaTeX code in HTML (allows equations display)
QRCodeJS was used to generate QRCode on-the-fly on each page
Direct HTML code in MarkDown documents

Fab Lab ULB orange(#ff581c) is part of our identity, quite pushed by Victor Levy.
ULB blue(#004b93) and light blue(#b1c1e5) come from the official ULB logo.
Latin Modern and Latin Modern Sans have been used to give a readable look, close to that of scientific and technical publications. The choice of using serif fonts (for titles) and sans fonts (for text) was inspired by Wikipedia’s style.

Kris was a great help to build the first skeleton (basic automated menu) and show me the first steps to get into Hugo.
The dropdown menu was inspired from https://bootsnipp.com/snippets/4qgR
The “copy code” button was inspired by https://digitaldrummerj.me/hugo-add-copy-code-snippet-button/ and adapted by NDC.