Is there any book, MOOC or comprehensive tutorial for Hugo ? Far too many tutorials are content simply by showing how to create a new site, apply a theme, change the title or whatever and then say “good luck, that’s it !”. The equivalent of showing a hello world program and tells you to peruse the …

I came here looking for the same thing. While reading the docs I had the same thought as buddha314 - the people writing the docs are too close to the subject matter. There are a ton of details which are great for advanced users, but the higher level info on here’s what Hugo can do and why you migh…

Very sad that the Hugo Experts with the skills to create accurate up to date documentation don’t realize the importance of the new user community in promoting their wonderful product. The article you referenced is almost 3 years old, and while it may be accurate, it would be better if something lik…

When I started using Hugo a number of years ago, the documentation was less well developed than it is now. It has been improved immensely through the hard work of many volunteers. I tried to read everything, and read it again. I don’t think there’s a substitute for that. I had to pester people in he…

[image] mojoa: I doubt most new users could accomplish the task given the current state of the documentation. When I started using hugo, I had no problem getting a basic site up and running by following the docs. As @RickCogley mentioned, read, then re-read. I usually learn something new when…

[image] zwbetz: If you have things to contribute to the docs, but don’t yet know how, there is never a better time to learn than now. There are many wonderful resources on the web. Here are a few of my favorites :slight_smile: These look like excellent references… you should add them to the H…

This might come off as facetious, but I want assure everyone: I am being serious. [image] mojoa: You can argue they don’t have the basic skills, or are too lazy to read and re-read the documentation, but the fact is, they leave and are no longer Hugo proponents. I don’t think anyone is too l…

As someone only an hour into Hugo, I want to convey how frustrating this conversation is. @maiki ’s reply is basically giving excuses for not doing what is obvious: Push the tutorial in the Quick Start guide further, so that the basics of website authoring are covered. My one-sentence background: I’…

[image] Mark: Naturally, I wanted to start including images and video Content uses Markdown. So let’s say you wanted to include an image from your static/ folder: ![alt text](path/to/image.jpg) You can also write HTML directly inside your Markdown. If you wanted to store your images in the…

As someone who started just a couple of weeks ago using Hugo I found mike Danes tutorials very useful. Did they answer every question? No ,but it gave me the basic structure that I needed to know how to get started even without using a theme. No matter what you decide to learn there will always be s…

Comprehensive hugo tutorial for beginners?

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pointyfar October 19, 2018, 7:23am 21

That’s a very nice list. I wish I had it when I was starting out!

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