Build the Fastest Blog Website with Markdown Content | Hugo Static Site Generation Tutorial

SEO-friendly and fast markdown blog app with Hugo static site generator.

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00:00 Introduction
02:56 Hugo Tutorial (Static Site Generation with Frontmatter and Markdown)
13:54 Markdown Syntax Tutorial
17:17 Create your own theme in Hugo (Hugo Layouts, Partials)
30:33 Responsive Layout Design
34:37 Hugo Navbar and Footer Design
44:00 Hugo List Page Design
59:10 Hugo How to Create Post Categories and Authors?
01:04:52 Hugo Single Page Design
01:26:30 Hugo Category Page
01:30:55 Hugo How to Add Dark/Light Mode?
01:39:20 Hugo How to Add Pagination?
01:44:15 Hugo How to Improve SEO?
01:47:58 How to Deploy Website?
01:51:22 Outro

[cheyenneleo]

I'm always happy to watch a lamadev tutorial on a technology I don't use. Love your teaching

[barsbulutdemir]

You are the best. I was looking for this tutorial like 3 months

[rockbelleh]

Lama Neva disappoints back to back awesome content

[rahuldabgotra]

Thanks sir for this amazing resource, i have written majority of my work in md file and using this blog site it will be easy to publish those blogs.

[droid]

Awesome tutorial my friend
I was actually thinking of creating a blog site using nextjs because of server side rendering + it will be Seo friendly. React or static sites are not user friendly but your tutorial right now might have solved this problem too ( haven't seen the full video. )

[vinoopb]

Hey Lama, thanks for this tutorial. However, an observation I have here is about writing new blog posts. Each time we write a new post, we would need to go to the hosting service and delete the content of the public_html directory, and re-upload the latest files from local. It is totally repetitive, so can you please make an additional small video on using web hooks or GitHub actions, or something? So when we update from local/VS Code and "git push", the site would be updated automatically. That would really complete this awesome tutorial.

[mehrdad]

this is my mentor, my eternal love, I'm working on fiverr course at this exact moment, what a beautiful course 😍😍😍😍😍❤❤❤

[njorogekamau]

Right on time brother, right on time.

[cheyenneleo]

I would love if you could make a tutorial on CMS integrations with Hugo, like Forestry

[collinsbaffour]

Hey, Lama thank you very much but during the observation I noticed you missed the search button configuration.

[ivansoriano]

Hi Lama! I love your tutorials! It's always fascinating to watch ❤️. I hope you could also make a tutorial about the Web-Based Automatic Call Distribution System for Call Centers. That would be awesome! 😊

[xz]

Hey buddy, I am so impressed of your video. By the way, may I know the colorschemes you use in your editor?

[DTUSEM]

Dart and flutter are also using same markdown approach.

[tsykin]

Great tutorial! Thanks for showing SEO guide and deployment process.

Please, consider including guide on relational databases and automatic deployments after update of github repo (after each 'push')

[oguzhangurbulak]

Hi, great video, thanks. I have some questions, though. What happens when we try to add a new post to the website? Every time, do we need to upload to the hosting provider, i.e., Hostinger, again and again?

[nabinsaud]

Another blog on astro will be also be cool i think

[abdelhaibouaicha]

📝 Summary of Key Points:

📌 The video demonstrates how to create a fast and SEO-friendly blog website using static site generation with Hugo. It covers setting up hosting, creating content, designing layouts, and adding styling to the website.
🧐 The speaker shows how to add a right sidebar to a web page using the CSS property "position: sticky" and how to add an image horizontally to the sidebar. They also explain how to create a category page and display the category name and the number of posts belonging to that category.
🚀 The video covers adding a toggle component to switch between light and dark modes using JavaScript. It also demonstrates how to add pagination to the post list and category page using the "paginator" template.
🚀 To improve SEO, the speaker adds metadata to the website, including the page title and description. They make the metadata dynamic by using the post title and description for individual posts and a general description for the homepage.
🚀 The video concludes by demonstrating how to deploy the website to a server using Hugo and mentions that Hugo generates pages quickly, even for large websites.

💡 Additional Insights and Observations:

💬 "Static site generation is a great way to create fast websites because it doesn't require a database connection and the pages are easily indexed by search engines."
💬 "Hugo is an open-source framework that provides a folder structure for a static site and allows for easy content creation and customization."
💬 "Adding a right sidebar using the CSS property 'position: sticky' can enhance the layout and functionality of a web page."
💬 "Implementing pagination can improve the user experience by breaking up long lists of posts into manageable pages."
💬 "Adding metadata to a website can help search engines understand and index the content more effectively."

📣 Concluding Remarks:

This video provides a comprehensive tutorial on creating a fast and SEO-friendly blog website using static site generation with Hugo. It covers various aspects such as setting up hosting, creating content, designing layouts, adding styling, and improving SEO. The demonstrations and explanations make it easy to follow along and implement these features in your own website.

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[chaitanya-varu]

can we change the URL to something other than file name?

[sherrygcf]

someone please help. i already follow the instruction to create a new posts but its always says did not match any files.... PLESW HELPW

[Shankar_B]

can we add a tailwind in hugo server ?