Welcome To HugoMaster.online

Welcome to my first ever post on my first ever site generated by the Hugo Static Site Generator. Read on to see what’s going on here.

Welcome

Alright! Welcome to my first article on my first hugo powered website.

If you’re visiting this site anywhere near this site’s creation date (Sept 9th, 2024) then:

  • I am very surprised you’re here
  • hugolab.dev is a very sparse looking website. It shall evolve

I have managed to work out how to add an external image via a shortcode… so here’s version 0.0.01 of the site. Hopefully it looks a little better by the time you read this

Version 0.0.01 of HugoLab.dev

As of right now, HugoLab.dev is a playground website that I have set up in order to learn how to create a fully functional website using the Hugo static site generator.

Why are you doing this?

A very good question.

I am no web developer, but I currently run two Wordpress websites:

I am also a massive nerd and have been ‘dabbling’ with online websites since my first geocities site back in about 1996

As much as I love the Wordpress platform, I want to take control of the devlopment of my sites a bit more and I want to learn some things in the process. Hence me now exploring website creation with Hugo

What’s the end goal?

Well - the end goal is to re-develop the above two websites using Hugo - but that is a long way off

First I am going to do what I can to learn how to use Hugo and I’m going to write about my journey on this site.

Hopefully along the way HugoLab.dev might become a useful resource for others who may also want to learn

… or maybe my idea will crash and burn

Time will tell