Building the iKatun website

I recently built both an archival website for the Institute for Infinitely Small Things, and an archive of the research database for the Corporate Commands project. There was just one other website to build to tie all of this together, the iKatun website, a non-profit based in Boston, Massachusetts, which made many of the Institute’s projects possible.

I decided to build the site in Hugo, using the Blowfish theme, which is a fork of the Congo them, with some enhancements. Because both Institute website and the corporate commands research database are built with this theme, I wanted to keep the aesthetic across all three sites.

I also wanted to keep track of any adjustments I made to the theme so that I a.) would be able to remember how I did stuff and b.) in case anyone else wanted to build a Hugo site with Blowfish and wanted to know how I did certain things.

So here goes! 😊

Getting rid of the favicon #

I didn’t want the iKatun website to have any favicon presented in the head of the browser. The easiest way I found to override the Blowfish theme from showing a favicon was to add the two following files to the static folder of my project.

static/favicon.ico
static/favicon.svg

And then restart the server, making sure to ignore the past cache:

hugo server --ignoreCache