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jingplay/build-your-website

Generate your website from a Markdown content directory tree

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jingplay/build-your-website

Overview

This is a simple, clean, flexible Hugo theme for content-focused websites. Check the Demo, and the simple guide to Build Your Website in minutes.

BTW, here is the official website of Hugo, which is one of the most popular open-source static site generators. With its amazing speed and flexibility, Hugo makes building websites fun again.

Features

  • Simple, clean and content-focused design
  • Zero configuration almost
  • Search support with Lunr.js
  • Multilingual support
  • Series taxonomy for online tutorials
  • Customize your pages with block shortcode
  • Comments support
  • Google analysis support

Build Your Website

Installations

Follow the official installation guide to install Hugo, or the following quick steps:

For Windows users

  1. Download Hugo extended
  2. Extract the package
  3. Add the path to the Path environment variable
  4. Run hugo version to verify the version installed

For Linux (Ubuntu) users

sudo snap install hugo
hugo version

Download the codes of this repository

Download the codes of sthis repository to a new directory, e.g., website/.

Run the website

Run hugo server -D --disableFastRender to launch the web server and view it in the browser http://localhost:1313/.

Configurations

Basic configurations

  • title: The website name shown in the navigation bar
  • params
    • siteLogo: The logo image file name in website/static/images/
    • description: The description of the website for SEO
    • keywords: The keywords of the website for SEO
    • author: The author of the website, which will be shown in the footer copyright
  • menu
    • maxLevel: The maximum depth of the content directory tree to show in the menu
    • maxPages: The maximum number of pages to show in the menu
    • expandAll: A flag to expand the all sub-menu items

More configurations

  • Table of content
markup:
  tableOfContents:
    startLevel: 2
    endLevel: 3
    ordered: false
  • Series
    Set series name and the number in the front matter to mark a page as a part of a tutorial:
series: "Build Your Website with Hugo"
sn: "01"
  • Disqus shortname
services:
  disqus:
    shortname: MyShortName
  • Google Analytics ID
services:
 googleAnalytics:
    ID: G-Xxx
  • Multilingual
languages:
  fr:
    contentDir: "content/fr"
    disabled: false
    languageCode: "fr"
    languageDirection: "ltr"
    languageName: "Français"
    weight: 2
  • Disqus Comment System
services:
  disqus:
    shortname: MyShorname
  • Google Analytics
services:
  googleAnalytics:
    ID: G-Xxx

Development

Tailwind CSS

The following command should be run in the root directory of the theme docs/ to generate a new app.css.

npx tailwindcss -i ./assets/css/index.css -o ./static/css/app.css --minify

Search With Lunr.js

To reduce the downloading size of content, only the title and the summary are included in the index.

See also