Making Money With Ghost As A Web Designer

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I’m at a bit of a career crossroads and love Ghost. I’ve come from being an on-off Squarespace web designer and wondering if anyone does a version of web design using Ghost? Is it a thing?

Ghost themes just sit so well across devices and getting Squarespace to look good cross device is such a pain.

Is there a way or a developer that does/can customise Ghost to have a website type home page/internal pages. I’m keen to replicate a ‘type of website’ so looking for a theme that’s very flexible on page layouts. Cheers.

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Ghost themes are technically just HTML with a bit of flavour in them (the flavour being handlebars).

The easiest way to get your customised home page is to add a home.hbs to your theme and style/layout that how you want:

Compared to Squarespace you will probably need more understanding of HTML/CSS, since it requres code.

For other internal pages, you can add these to your theme as well (hard coded or by using the routes.yaml to pull data from a page you created within Ghost).

I don’t know all themes out there, but the vast majority I am aware of rather focus on serving specific use cases for end users rather than a flexible tool set for developers/web designers to build around. The only one that comes to my mind is @dan’s Theme Boilerplate, though that is more of a ready-to-use starter kit for creating themes from scratch.

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Thank you. I’ll be sure to check out the Boilerplate Theme … might be just what I need. Cheers! :sunglasses:

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I have found this to be a great place to start to understand the structure of a theme.

Also, have a look at code in the Edtion Theme - very simple but uses all basic functionality. Just download the ZIP and start from default.hbs

And, there’s a tag {{content}} which … has some interesting capabilities, can be both a post or a page, and you need to keep track of which context you’re in. post/page/home/tag etc

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Thank you. I appreciate your input and will certainly give both my time. I’m still new and this is out of my comfort one but nobody gets anywhere from there. Cheers! ;)

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