My sister helps to run a place in my hometown where children can come and spend time in a safe environment on Fridays and Saturdays. They call it the filling station. Awhile ago I helped my sister create a simple website for that facility (http://rushvillefillingstation.com/). I made the initial site and it is very basic. I have been intending to come back and work on it, but time has gotten away from me.

Over the next few weeks, I intend to redo the website and make it a little more expandable and useful. Currently I am thinking about using either Hugo or WordPress.

HUGO

I like Hugo (especially since that is what I am currently using for this blog), but the one major limitation is I need a contact form and haven’t currently found a solution with which I am extremely happy. Any contact form solution must either run in JavaScript that connects to a backend API or direct the user to a web application (app) that handles the actual contact portion. I like the javascript method since the hugo site completely encloses the site, but I have concerns about the security of connecting to an email API from font-end code. The option of directing to a web app for the contact page feels like a hack to me since it would not really be a part of the rest of the app.

WordPress

WordPress is a great web app platform, but the site doesn’t change super often and I really don’t need anything that heavy.