{"id":13824,"date":"2020-07-13T12:19:11","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T18:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/macblaze.ca\/?p=13824"},"modified":"2020-07-13T12:19:11","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T18:19:11","slug":"hugo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/?p=13824","title":{"rendered":"Hugo!"},"content":{"rendered":"

While I was looking into linux, I came across a vlog that recommended using Hugo<\/a> and Netlify<\/a> as a way to maintain a free web presence. I’ve found a lot of these sorts of things (“free”) and even went so far as to set up a small site using the free parts of Google Cloud to get my Python project<\/a> up and running.<\/p>\n

But what struck me about Hugo was that it was a static website and therefore faster and more secure than the typical WordPress install. And it was an intriguing concept that you could mimic the  flexibility of a dynamic site using static pages. So I decided to give it a go.<\/p>\n

I deiced to leave Netlify as an experiment for a future project and set about rebuilding the site using Hugo. As a result my old, much ignored portfolio site astart.ca<\/a> is now refreshed and way more speedy even though I didn’t change the content or the host.<\/p>\n

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So what is it?<\/h2>\n

I will get into more it in a later post. But basically it’s a framework that allows you to build the website using templates and pseudo-dynamic techniques and when you are ready to go, you just “publish” the project and it exports the whole website as static pages. It supports a ton of themes like WordPress, although again I decided to build my own from scratch.<\/p>\n

Pages are built using markdown<\/a>. It’s a versatile markup language and one I keep trying to use so one of the side benefits of this is I have become much more facile using it. The gist is that now the site is built all you have to do is open a text file, add content using markdown formatting, link to accompanying pictures and then  just run a short “deploy” script to automatically rebuild the site and upload to your host. Simple.<\/p>\n

It’s perfect for a site like the portfolio that doesn’t change much, but now I am going to try it on a more blog-oriented site to see it it will stand up to more frequent posting. I will let you know.<\/p>\n

As for astart.ca<\/a>, well it’s  up and running and  has a fresh new design. Check it out. Now all I have to do is dig up more current material to post. And that’s the hard part \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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