Zoph has a new site

01 Jan 2019 by jeroen

Zoph's site has been completely rebuild and redesigned It is now hosted at Gitlab.

In 2009, I gave Zoph a new site. This site was hosted on Sourceforge servers, at the time Zoph's home. In almost 10 years that passed, Zoph has relocated twice, first to Github and recently to Gitlab. The site used Concrete5 as it's CMS and unfortunately, with the switch from version 7 to version 8, they made the, in my opinion, grave mistake to drop backwards compatibility. This meant that I needed to re-build the site from scratch. Since I wanted to switch to Github's hosting, which did (and does) not support full-blown CMS's, I figured that if I needed to rebuild the site anyway, I could do it in an environment that is supported by GitHub. The project took ages to finish (I think I started it about 5 years ago!) and in the meantime I had switched to GitLab. Fortunately, I could use the same setup on GitLab Pages.

GitHub and GitLab pages are build around Static Site Generators. I chose to use Jekyll as my SSG. I chose the Agency theme as a basis for the Zoph site, but modified it highly to fit my needs.