New Site

New Site #

This part of the documentation will outline the basics of creating a new website with Hugo.

Requirements #

  1. Hugo
  2. Windows device
  3. Basic command line knowledge

Creating the website #

  1. Create a new folder where you would like to store the website content.
  2. Open up Powershell and change directory to the newly created folder.
  3. Run the following command to create the website.
hugo new site quickstart
  1. If there are no errors. A new website with the name “quickstart” will be created.
  2. You should see the following file structure within the newly created folder.
#output
Mode                 LastWriteTime         Length Name
----                 -------------         ------ ----
d-----          9/7/2022  10:22 PM                archetypes
d-----          9/7/2022  10:22 PM                content
d-----          9/7/2022  10:22 PM                data
d-----          9/7/2022  10:22 PM                layouts
d-----          9/7/2022  10:22 PM                public
d-----          9/7/2022  10:22 PM                static
d-----          9/7/2022  10:22 PM                themes
-a----          9/7/2022  10:22 PM             82 config.toml
Under construction currently.