A template for static website projects

Tools!

• Docker
• Make
• A Netlify account or an Amazon AWS account ($$)
• GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket account (if using Netlify)
• Terraform (for AWS)
• Hugo

Terraform, Hugo, and Docker are all tools built with Go!

Blog posts!

• Static Websites with S3 and Hugo, Part 1 covers setting up a static website on AWS Simple Storage Service (S3) with Terraform
• Static Websites with S3 and Hugo, Part 2 covers building and deploy a static website, with a little help from Docker and Hugo.

Build a site

Clone this repo:

git clone --recurse-submodules git@github.com:alimac/hugo-starter.git
cd hugo-starter

• make
• make help
• Set WEBSITE
• make build
• make new-site
• Update config.toml to add theme = "ananke"
• make serve
• make edit
• make random-post

Basic theme configuration:

# Put links to main sections in the menu bar
SectionPagesMenu = "main"

[params]
  description = "Building static sites with Docker, Hugo, Terraform, and Netlify."
  twitter = "https://twitter.com/womenwhogo_chi"

[permalinks]
  post = "/:slug/"

Visit ananke theme for more details, or explore other Hugo themes.