Build and deploy a static business website in 15 minutes

You need to build a simple static website? The best tool I’ve seen so far is Hugo, a static website builder written in Go.

Start building the page

1. Install Hugo, create a project directory and run the following in your terminal:

hugo new site my-page

2. Change to the directory and initialize a git repo:

cd my-page && git init

3. Install a theme (hugo-fresh business theme)

git submodule add https://github.com/StefMa/hugo-fresh.git themes/hugo-fresh && curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StefMa/hugo-fresh/master/exampleSite/config.yaml && rm config.toml

4. Run your website locally and browse it at http://localhost:1313

hugo server

Now you can see your website looking like this:

Your page at http://localhost:1313

To adjust the content you can manage everything in your config.yaml file in the root of your project. When you start to make changes to this file and save it, your changes are going to be refreshed immediately in the browser. Please note that you still need to have hugo server running in the background.

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