Building this website

July 8, 2023

This post is a short guide to setting up your own static website based on the Hugo framework using GitLab’s free hosting to serve it either on yourwebsite.gitlab.io or a custom domain you own (helioslyons.com) in my case. Not being a web developer, I took advantage of Hugo’s great documentation, as well as GitLab’s generous tier of free build servers and pre-built Docker images with Hugo installed to speed up development. ...