Thought Bricks

Something that wasn’t entirely clear to me as I set up this blog with Hugo was the best way to organize blog entries so that they can have images or other content in them. Page Bundles are a good way to do this. They allow you to put content together in a folder to create a single page. I decided to follow a date-based numbering scheme for my posts (I’m not sure if this is the best, but that way, I don’t have to think about it much, I just pick the next number) so to create a new page bundle, the command looked like:

Hugo is a good tool for building simple websites. It’s easy to get started with and has a simple workflow that gets out of the way for ongoing updates. Essentially, I followed the steps outlined in the Quick Start and applied the ghostwriter theme. I decided to host the site on Netlify because it had a simple Github based publication process and was very easy to set up. After I generated the site following the Quick Start, I created a new private Github repo and pushed the site up there.