You may want to try zwbetz’s excellent tutorial.
Make a Hugo blog from scratch tips & tricks
Copied from the tutorial intro: In my opinion, Hugo’s current quick start is ample. It does just what the name says, gets you started you quickly . Still, there have many requests on the forums for a tutorial that dives deeper than the quick start, and gets into some templating basics. The thing you’re reading is my go at that. Starting from scratch, we’ll build a Hugo blog. The finished product will be a stripped-down version of the vanilla bootstrap theme. For the folks out there thinkin…
And Mike Dane’s Youtube series for a quick start.
And recommended reading: