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<p>The following steps are here to help you initialize your new website. If you don’t know Hugo at all, we strongly suggest you learn more about it by following this <ahref="https://gohugo.io/overview/quickstart/"target="_blank">great documentation for beginners</a>.</p>
<p>Install the Relearn theme by following <ahref="https://gohugo.io/hugo-modules/use-modules/#use-a-module-for-a-theme"target="_blank">this documentation</a> using Hugo’s module system.</p>
<p>This theme’s repository is: <ahref="https://github.com/McShelby/hugo-theme-relearn.git"target="_blank">https://github.com/McShelby/hugo-theme-relearn.git</a></p>
<p>Alternatively, you can <ahref="https://github.com/McShelby/hugo-theme-relearn/archive/main.zip"target="_blank">download the theme as .zip</a> file and extract it in the <code>themes</code> directory</p>
<p>When building the website, you can set a theme by using <code>--theme</code> option. However, we suggest you modify the configuration file (<code>config.toml</code>) and set the theme as the default. You can also add the <code>[outputs]</code> section to enable the search functionality.</p>
<divclass="highlight"><pretabindex="0"class="chroma"><codeclass="language-toml"data-lang="toml"><spanclass="line"><spanclass="cl"><spanclass="c"># Change the default theme to be use when building the site with Hugo</span>
</span></span></code></pre></div><h2id="create-your-first-chapter-page">Create your first chapter page</h2>
<p>Chapters are pages that contain other child pages. It has a special layout style and usually just contains a <em>chapter name</em>, the <em>title</em> and a <em>brief abstract</em> of the section.</p>
<p>The Relearn theme provides archetypes to create skeletons for your website. Begin by creating your first chapter page with the following command</p>
<divclass="highlight"><pretabindex="0"class="chroma"><codeclass="language-shell"data-lang="shell"><spanclass="line"><spanclass="cl">hugo new --kind chapter basics/_index.md
</span></span></code></pre></div><p>By opening the given file, you should see the property <code>chapter=true</code> on top, meaning this page is a <em>chapter</em>.</p>
<p>By default all chapters and pages are created as a draft. If you want to render these pages, remove the property <code>draft: true</code> from the metadata.</p>
<h2id="create-your-first-content-pages">Create your first content pages</h2>
<p>Then, create content pages inside the previously created chapter. Here are two ways to create content in the chapter:</p>
<divclass="highlight"><pretabindex="0"class="chroma"><codeclass="language-shell"data-lang="shell"><spanclass="line"><spanclass="cl">hugo new basics/first-content.md
</span></span><spanclass="line"><spanclass="cl">hugo new basics/second-content/_index.md
</span></span></code></pre></div><p>Feel free to edit those files by adding some sample content and replacing the <code>title</code> value in the beginning of the files.</p>
<h2id="launching-the-website-locally">Launching the website locally</h2>
</span></span></code></pre></div><p>Go to <code>http://localhost:1313</code></p>
<p>You should notice three things:</p>
<ol>
<li>You have a left-side <strong>Basics</strong> menu, containing two submenus with names equal to the <code>title</code> properties in the previously created files.</li>
<li>The home page explains how to customize it by following the instructions.</li>
<li>When you run <code>hugo serve</code>, when the contents of the files change, the page automatically refreshes with the changes. Neat!</li>
</ol>
<h2id="build-the-website">Build the website</h2>
<p>When your site is ready to deploy, run the following command:</p>
</span></span></code></pre></div><p>A <code>public</code> folder will be generated, containing all static content and assets for your website. It can now be deployed on any web server.</p>
<p>This website can be automatically published and hosted with <ahref="https://www.netlify.com/"target="_blank">Netlify</a> (Read more about <ahref="https://www.netlify.com/blog/2015/07/30/hosting-hugo-on-netlifyinsanely-fast-deploys/"target="_blank">Automated HUGO deployments with Netlify</a>). Alternatively, you can use <ahref="https://gohugo.io/hosting-and-deployment/hosting-on-github/"target="_blank">GitHub pages</a>.</p>
