diff --git a/.drone.jsonnet b/.drone.jsonnet
index c621d75..e1af9fc 100644
--- a/.drone.jsonnet
+++ b/.drone.jsonnet
@@ -46,14 +46,14 @@ local PipelineDocs = {
       name: 'testbuild',
       image: 'thegeeklab/hugo:0.97.3',
       commands: [
-        'hugo --panicOnWarning -b http://localhost/',
+        'hugo --panicOnWarning -b http://localhost:8000/',
       ],
     },
     {
       name: 'link-validation',
       image: 'thegeeklab/link-validator',
       commands: [
-        'link-validator -ro',
+        'link-validator --nice --external --skip-file .linkcheckignore',
       ],
       environment: {
         LINK_VALIDATOR_BASE_DIR: 'public',
diff --git a/.drone.yml b/.drone.yml
index 410476a..c4cd68d 100644
--- a/.drone.yml
+++ b/.drone.yml
@@ -37,12 +37,12 @@ steps:
   - name: testbuild
     image: thegeeklab/hugo:0.97.3
     commands:
-      - hugo --panicOnWarning -b http://localhost/
+      - hugo --panicOnWarning -b http://localhost:8000/
 
   - name: link-validation
     image: thegeeklab/link-validator
     commands:
-      - link-validator -ro
+      - link-validator --nice --external --skip-file .linkcheckignore
     environment:
       LINK_VALIDATOR_BASE_DIR: public
 
@@ -87,6 +87,6 @@ trigger:
 
 ---
 kind: signature
-hmac: daefbd7df338b4ad5e69f10a57672d93acc992468ab407694b241ba7c810c184
+hmac: 21b711c2a7408288c869215d702e496ec5d887e7e817d23d12d21990f30a18d3
 
 ...
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 6098772..1d9036e 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,4 +1,17 @@
-public/
-resources/_gen/
-themes/
-content/**/
+# local environments
+.swp
+.env*
+/dist/
+/build/
+/node_modules/
+
+# auto-generated files
+/themes/
+/public/
+/static/
+/resources/
+/content/**/
+/content/collections/
+
+# hugo
+.hugo_build.lock
diff --git a/.linkcheckignore b/.linkcheckignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e69de29