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A Beginner’s Guide to Creating a Static Website with Hugo

A Beginner’s Guide to Creating a Static Website with Hugo


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3.7∙4 Ratings2 reviews

Published
April 2019
Publisher
SitePoint
Chapters
1

About the course

This tutorial describes how to use Hugo, a static site generator (SSG) written in Go. By “static site” we mean a website that consists of pages that are served directly to the client, without any additional server-side processing. SSGs are especially handy when you’re building not-too-complex sites like a personal blog, a product page, an informational resource, and so on.

Hugo boasts rich features, is very quick thanks to Go, and has lots of third-party themes, an active community, and detailed documentation. This guide covers the following topics:

  • installing and configuring Hugo
  • creating pages and adding content
  • providing meta information with the help of front matter
  • using archetypes and taxonomies
  • organizing content
  • creating a theme
  • internationalizing a website
  • deploying a project

Author

Ilya Bodrov-Krukowski

Ilya Bodrov-Krukowski

Ilya is a lecturer at MATI-RSTU, senior engineer at Campaigner LLC and seasoned author at SitePoint. When Ilya is not working away on new projects or contributing to open source projects, he's expanding and refining his skills in HTML, CSS, jQuery, Angular, Backbone and Rails. You can read all about his work and development discoveries on his blog Radiant Wind.

Course Outline

Chapter 1: A Beginner’s Guide to Creating a Static Website with Hugo

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Course details

3.7∙4 Ratings2 reviews

Published
April 2019
Publisher
SitePoint
Chapters
1

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