Doordarshan Demo

Welcome to Doordarshan

Rohan Verma — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Doordarshan is built for people who like their sites to feel deliberate: a little terminal, a little notebook, and just enough ornament to stay warm.</p>

What the theme tries to optimize for</h2>

readable long-form text</li>
lightweight navigation</li>
a homepage that works with only a few config values</li>

room for a small wiki or digital-garden section</li> </ul>

export function navBrand(value: string): string {
  return value.trim() || "~/dd";
}
</code></pre>
You can keep the defaults, override individual templates, or treat the whole thing as a starting point for a deeply personal site.</p>



Now
Rohan Verma — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000
Working on</h2>

turning the theme repo into a complete standalone demo</li>
tightening the README to match strong Zola theme repos</li>
preparing gallery screenshots for getzola/themes</code></li>
</ul>
Paying attention to</h2>
The pages area, search defaults, and how little config is needed before the homepage starts feeling complete.</p>


Doordarshan demo site
Rohan Verma — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000
This page is part reference, part acceptance test.</p>
It exercises the project template, the sidebar layout, the homepage links, and the default social metadata paths used by the standalone repo.</p>


Customizing the theme
Rohan Verma — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000
There are three common ways to adapt the theme:</p>
1. Update extra.doordarshan.*</code></h2>
Start with config. The theme exposes identity, navigation, homepage links, contact details, analytics, and feature flags through namespaced keys.</p>
2. Override templates selectively</h2>
Zola lets you shadow individual files in your site root.</p>

templates/base.html</code></li>
templates/page.html</code></li>
static/js/site.js</code></li>
</ul>
3. Keep site-only behavior outside the theme</h2>
If something is clearly brand-specific, load it from extra.doordarshan.scripts.additional</code> instead of baking it into the theme.</p>


Design notes for a slower web
Rohan Verma — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000
A good personal site does not need constant motion. It needs a point of view.</p>
That is why the theme leans on typography, spacing, and rhythm</strong> more than animation. The homepage is compact. Lists are plainspoken. Colors are few. The result is something that still feels personal without becoming heavy.</p>

Static sites can still feel inhabited. The trick is giving them texture, not noise.</p>
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Content topology
Rohan Verma — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000
Doordarshan keeps its assumptions intentionally small.</p>

blog/_index.md</code> defines the primary post archive.</li>
pages/_index.md</code> defines the long-form or wiki-style area.</li>
contact.md</code> and search.md</code> can stay thin because the theme owns their default templates.</li>
</ul>
The theme prefers section source paths</strong> over hard-coded URLs, so you can move the blog or pages roots without rewriting every template.</p>


Retro reading log
Rohan Verma — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000
Archived projects still render cleanly and can carry a small status marker without needing a separate layout.</p>

Doordarshan Demo

Welcome to Doordarshan

Now

Paying attention to</h2> The pages area, search defaults, and how little config is needed before the homepage starts feeling complete.</p>

Doordarshan demo site

Customizing the theme

3. Keep site-only behavior outside the theme</h2> If something is clearly brand-specific, load it from extra.doordarshan.scripts.additional</code> instead of baking it into the theme.</p>

Design notes for a slower web

Content topology

Retro reading log

Paying attention to</h2>
The pages area, search defaults, and how little config is needed before the homepage starts feeling complete.</p>

3. Keep site-only behavior outside the theme</h2>
If something is clearly brand-specific, load it from `extra.doordarshan.scripts.additional</code> instead of baking it into the theme.</p>`