Struggling to get 'hello world' site to work

[mojoa]

You may want to try zwbetz’s excellent tutorial.

Tutorial: Make a Hugo blog from scratch

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. For the folks out there thinking, “just show me the money already”, here’s the finished product source code and demo. …

And Mike Dane’s Youtube series for a quick start.

Introduction to Hugo | Hugo - Static Site Generator | Tutorial 1