Let’s make some content Hugo is pretty loose about its expectations, but it does require some structure. That structure somewhat also depends on the theme used, and advanced users can tweak the theme and content locations. We’re using the ananke theme, and the constraints are as follows: All content lives in the content/ folder All top level content is list pages, i.e., “content categories”, i.e., folders All 2nd level content is “sections”, i.

We’ve made a content file in content/_index.md. Once you start adding content to it, if you run hugo -D, you should see output generated in the public/ folder. If we open one of the .html files in Sublime, we should see some text and lots of angle brackets. This looks messy, and it is, becuse this is generated by Hugo. These files are not meant to be read by humans.