Hugo makes creating a new site easy, but the site is blank. This blank slate is helpful if you’re experienced and don’t want to delete a bit of configuration before building your site, but it can be really rough on beginners just trying to understand how to get going. The purpose of this post is t…

I noticed that on my last drive-by :slight_smile: After it gets looked over by the forum, do you want me to do a PR to add it to the docs?

Nice tutorial @michael_henderson . Looks good overall, just have a few small tweaks for best practices. Instead of doing {{ .Permalink | relURL }} you can use {{ .RelPermalink }} And instead of {{ .Site.BaseURL }}/posts (and related occurrences) you can use {{ "posts/" | absURL }} This will handle…

@michael_henderson . This is great! I’ve always thought you and I had similar sensibilities about what a good docs site can provide for all manner of end users. Hugo should be positioned as a powerful tool for beginners and professionals alike, and I think the “slow start” does well to inspire the fo…

Good suggestion. I made the updates to the post. (I’ll update my repo and confirm that I didn’t introduce typos :).) Edit: repo updated. Thanks again for the suggestions.

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@michael_henderson A few ideas, let me know your thoughts: Putting the final project files in Git, that way someone can grab a link and clone/run the finished project (this would also allow a live demo via Netlify) Changing up the CSS (but still keeping it hyper minimal) to something like that of h…

Yes. If I space out doing it, since it is a wiki I think it can be done by most if not all members, so, you can ping me to do it, or, just do it. :smile:

It is in a repo (the link is hidden in the foot.html template - https://github.com/mdhender/canvas ). I’ll look at the CSS.

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RickCogley April 28, 2019, 12:40am 2

Nice; this looks like what people have been asking for, for quite some time!

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