Finally, the new version of AlphaHutte is online! It had been almost a year I wanted to rebuild the site in order to give it a new look but above all drop the 100% static hand-made HTML pages in favor of a modern blogging engine. Although writing your own HTML code allows to produce perfectly styled pages, I was tired of spending hours to publish even the simplest of documents.

The search of a suitable blogging engine was pretty easy: after some reading, I quickly chose Wordpress which is free (as many others), has an amazing admin panel and seems to have a lot going around it in terms of add-ons and community. On the contrary, for the template (which determines how content is showed and styled) it took me ages (ages!). I tested a good number of the ones available in the many repositories around the web but none was polished enough or suitable for my purposes. In the end, I found Kyle Neath’s Hemingway which impressed me for its original concept and overall novelty. It took me quite some time to polish it and fit it to the style I had in mind and now you can see the results! It gives much more emphasis to content and features a white-on-black style (together with AlphaHutte’s historic yellow color) which I find perfect to display photographs. However, I still have many more ideas in mind and somehow I’m not completely happy with the style so expect to see some improvements in the following months. Also, I’m still transfering content from the old version to the new one so come back to watch the progress.

For those of you who are visiting Alphahutte for the first time, it’s a personal website about some of my great passions: travel, trekking, skiing, mountain biking, photography and technology in all its forms. However, expect to see even more topics showing up from time to time since the problem with me is that I get interested in so many things… Apart from the blog, you’ll find featured articles and reviews, a collection of links and a section with downloads (all free!). The site is also a showcase for my photographs, most of them shot during many of my trips around the world. The gallery is in fact the most rewarding part of the site and… the one you should head right now! Enjoy.