Looking for a handy HUGO development environment

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I made my first small website in 1998, then under Windows with a tool “Front-Page”. I installed the tool and a few hours later the website was ready.

HUGO should make some packages:

  1. HUGO base
    Comes with HUGO installation, a simple CMS and a simple WYSIWYG editor.

  2. HUGO advanced
    Like HUGO base, but with two more, better CMS, which you can choose when installing and a better WYSIWYG editor. In addition, a tool to edit the theme css.

  3. HUGO extended
    Like HUGO advanced, but with an option to replace the CMS and WYSIWYG editor after installation.

1 and 2 also include an option to switch to the next higher package. With these packages you have the opportunity to test everything in advance and give the user a good recommendation. If you work with plugins, you can, for example, make a plugin to connect the packages with git or with another hoster. And much more.

I worked as a project manager in Informatics for 15 years. So I know the users and their needs and also the software developers well. Often the two do not get along very well, different worldviews. Users want a result, fast and good. Software developers want to keep “clean” code and, if possible, all options open. What decides is the market! No boss of a small company can afford to invest several days or even several weeks to evaluate the right HUGO development environment. So he will choose another tool, which will give him a package that has already been tested and with which he will have the first good result after a few hours.

Think about it. Other static website builders can do this, some are free, some are not. We are not all “code freaks”, yes most of us are not. Who looks at the code on his letter, which he wrote with the word processor? Or the code of the pdf, or the jpg? So who looks at the code of his website? We’re not in our 80s or 90s anymore. And that’s good :slightly_smiling_face:

No new user who just wants to create a website should have to go through such discussions:

https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/what-is-the-best-open-source-cms-for-hugo/34728/15

Now, after a few hours of studying HUGO and some tests with HUGO pure, I will also look at other tools that seem to be a little easier, publii or dokuwiki, for example. After that, I decide which product I will choose.

see you :grinning: