My First Post – Building and Hosting My Hugo Site

This is my very first post on this site — and what better way to start than by writing about how I created this blog itself.

Setting up Hugo

I wanted a minimal, fast, and open-source way to build a personal website. That’s why I chose Hugo — a static site generator written in Go.

Steps I followed:

1. Installed Hugo on my Arch Linux system
2. Created a new site with hugo new site my-portfolio
3. Picked PaperMod theme that matched my style
4. Added my first pages About, Socials

Hosting on GitHub Pages

Instead of paid hosting, I decided to use GitHub Pages, since it’s free and works seamlessly with Hugo.