Zero 2 Hugo is an evolving Primer for creating a website from scratch using Hugo.
We develop a website starting with a bare metal one and finally reach a featured website with a nice look and feel.
If you came here to find a quick guide to set up a static website with a nice theme and simple setup - this is not where you are. We recommend one of the tutorials around maybe one already utilizing a Theme for layout and styling. An fast and easy go would be Hugo - Getting Started.
Zero2Hugo is not an introduction SSG, Web technologies (Html, css, scss...), front matter, Markdown, template systems, Git, GitHub, GitHubPages, ... (yeah, buzzword bingo).
We use all that while evolving the site but we won't get in details.
For Hugo we provide a little more background information. Where appropriate we link to link to the official Hugo Documentation. Be prepared to read a lot of these pages for deeper understanding.
We expect you to be familiar with
- Your operating systems command line interface
- Git
- Markdown
- HTML, CSS, SCSS, ...
- basic programming skills will help
While evolving we will push example sources for each site to our code repository. Each example is a small website on it's own and runnable. Just check out the example section or browse the repo.
Zero here really means from scratch. We will start with an empty local folder and a fresh git repository. Step by step we evolve to a static website written in Markdown, generated using Hugo and styled with Bulma.
The site finally should evolve to be fancy
- themed
- responsive
- multilingual
- versioned
- maybe more...
If we did not scare you away, stay curious and
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From Zero 2 Hugo - Example Sites
Our ready to run example websites discussed in the Primer
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A list of tools we use incl. brief setup and usage instructions. Maybe something valuable for you here.