Initial setup We’ll need 4 things an editor a Git interface a Github account and the tool we use to create the site, Hugo The first 3 can be done in parallel should you choose to, you’ll need to install 2 apps and sign up for 1 account. Installing Hugo is more involved, but we guide you through that step-by-step. There is some use of a terminal, but we provide all exact commands you need.

Install Homebrew if you haven’t. To install Homebrew, you need to open a Terminal, usually using your launcher, so Cmd+Space, type in Terminal, press Enter copy & paste this bit of text into the window /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)" Once that’s done, paste in brew install hugo

If you’re using a package manager like Chocolatey, it should be present there. If not, you should be able to follow the official installation directions What you’ll need to do is Download a Windows release of Hugo Make a directory named Hugo in your C: drive Make a directory named bin in the newly made Hugo diretory Move the file you downloaded into this bin folder Unzip the file directly into the bin directory You should now see 3 files, one of which is hugo.