My first TIL is about the process of creating this very own homepage. I found the idea of a static site generator difficult to wrap my head around. Having worked with Wordpress before, everything was much more manual. The documentation of themes differed wildly and only after picking up a different theme was I able to understand what is being done in Hugo.
I started with the Ananke Theme but migrated over to PaperMod after watching a YouTube Tutorial that used PaperMod as an example.
The first youtube video that I watched was “Hugo Actually Explained (Websites, Themes, Layouts, and Intro to Scripting” by Luke Smith . Since this was my introduction to the topic besides the official Hugo documentation I had a tough time following the tutorial. Luckily, “Getting Started With Hugo | Free Course” by Envato Tuts+ was much more beginner-friendly and accessible. Had I not watched the Luke Smith video in 2x-speed, I probably could have gained more from the video. However, I was impatient and wanted quick results.
In the end, patience was necessary and paid off quickly after gaining a good understanding of the concepts that were shown in the Envato Tutorial. I plan on revisiting the Luke Smith Tutorial to edit small things on my page. For the beginning though, I can say that I finally got a page up and running using Hugo !