The Ultimate Website Set Up

This shows you have I automate my workflows and setup my website for maximum productivity and search

The best part is this is FREE and will produce a website faster than anything on the web. Netlify, my host, didn’t charge anything until I was breaking 100GB of bandwidth and 100,000 active users PER MONTH!

[JeffGeerling]

Static site generators FTW! I use Hugo or Jekyll usually, but prefer Hugo because it's less annoying to set up than a Ruby app. If I didn't care about controlling the comments on my main website, it would be statically generated too.

[ArniesTech]

I love building my entire website in HTML/CSS/HTML by hand 🙏

[TheLakeJake]

I have been thinking about creating a blog to demonstrate learning to employers and share with others, but knew I didn’t want want to go the wp or square space route. This gets me thinking, thanks Chris!

[ishanwankhade]

Hey Chris, ever planning to cover containers? Thank you for your awesome work btw!

[jacksystems]

Timestamps:

Intro - 0:00

Overview - 1:16

Example Article - 1:47

Building/Running the Website With The Article - 5:55

Auto Updating - 7:29

Netlify/Deploying the Website - 8:43

Theming - 10:08

Comments - 13:55

Conclusion - 16:08

[DanWalshTV]

Astro is another really good option for static (or mostly static) sites.

[donaldmickunas]

In a word, infrastructure. You have created an integrated system that automates a lot of what you do. I get it. I’ve been working on my backup/restore system using scripts along with automating more and more of my Slackware/OpenBSD installs. It takes time and thought plus research and plain old trial and error. Bottom line, most people simply don’t have the desire to do it. Thus, the massive software packages that claim to do it for you. Nice until one day, you realize that you are now totally dependent on the maintainers of that software.

[fahimanayet]

0 to 0:26 I was thinking it maybe HUGO we are takling about. 1:05 now it's sure is HUGO.

[futuregootecks]

brilliant!!! learned so much and about to set it up myself right now

[vasubawa]

Woh, you have the Eragon series books! Such an amazing series!

[billeterk]

Set up a personal site for notes, reminders, journaling in 2020 2nd lockdown (in Melbourne). Ended up with Pelican as I’d started with restructeredText before markdown took off. Similar. The no fuss aspect is great.

[federicoagostini]

Thank you Chris! I started usign Hugo some times ago after one of your videos, and I really enjoy it. I am actually porting the website of my sport association from Wordpress to Hugo, due to its much faster workflow.

Do you know about the Wowchemy theme/project? It provides a really easy way to setup your Hugo website (there is a one-click deploy with Netlify) and it also features a good amount of prebuilt widgets and blocks (and documentation). In addition, the community is very active and you can easily extend and customize it. This was my starting point, hope it can also help other people to get into Hugo!

[tacioandrade]

That's very good, I didn't know this solution, really when working with static sites it is by far the best option for your web server.

Nowadays another option that I have used with some clients that have a front in angular, vue, react, etc, is to use Cloudflare to provide the front, doing it with automatic deployment from github, cutting the costs of the application front server and today we only have the application's API storage cost!

[jacksystems]

Thanks Chris, I have a website with Hugo but it is quite bare bones and only has a couple of posts. I'm gonna have to use some of these tips when I rebuild it.

[eightbitoni]

I wonder how well this would work with obsidian note taking, really cool thank you

[ambuj.k]

Markdown is so genius that using html in 2022 feels doing ape stuff. But for people who are new to markdown I'd recommend they use MarkText or Obsidian to Edit their markdown files because they are highly interactive and forgiving when you forget what symbol does what.

[theBoomerDoomer]

I really don't understand the attractiveness of services like Wordpress, Squarespace and Wix, when there are methods like this to create a simple static site. The ease of use argument isn't really a valid one, IMHO... This is really not much harder than using a WYSWYG editor (especially these days) or LC/NC tools, which can be infuriatingly complicated. This is so much more elegant, flexible, fast, and most likely way cheaper... also, it's portable. Usually, sites created in those builder services are not easily ported (if at all) to another provider or platform.

Thanks for sharing your workflow with us, Chris!

[UmitSeyhan]

It is hard to read your article with the light theme on, you may want to improve the contrast ratio.

[sim]

This is great!
I've built my website using Hugo when you initially built yours. Now I wanted to change up the theme and this video shows up!! :D

[whoisYoges]

Hugo is cool; but what do you think about zola?