What happens in there
Okay, Before it gets any weirder, Hugo is a blogging engine. Write a bunch of files in markdown syntax and Hugo will render it for you. When all is done, and you are satisfied, it can be taken to next step.
Where to begin
In all the ocean of knowledge, an important question to ask is where the Hell I start ?
There were so many blogging engines, With my initial encounter with Jekyll, Octopress etc., I thought I may never start.
To my surprise, Hugo came to rescue. The reason I like is its written in Go and is easy to modify (as I am learning Go language).
Never thought this would happen
It was a bliss and with a few command strokes my blog is up and running. Hugo provides a builtin server that fires up a local server at http://localhost:1313 if you dont give any options.
hugo server -ws .
This automatically updates your blogged page real-time to reflect your latest contents
Setting up
Much of the information is presented in a better manner on hugo’s documents
Please refer that. We discuss setting up a github pages (static content). My
goal is to have a single repository that serves as fully deployed html files
from a gh-pages branch.
Another branch say master saves all the static contents of this site.
Setting up hugo
As mentioned above, please refer Hugo’s documentation for this
Setting up your site
hugo new site <site>
Where ‘site’ is the name of the site for your disposal.
Setting up your categories
It is better to categorize contents that one will write on their pages.
Writing your first Blog
Changing your home page
My personal preference is to have a separate home page which doens’t right away thow the blog/ in the visitors face. Hence I designed in pure HTML what looks like an home page at PREM Mallappa
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