GitHub and Hugo, a Great Combination for Business Static Website

Abhishek Sharma
SparseCode
Published in
7 min readJun 21, 2020

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Current time is indeed one of the toughest times I have witnessed. Almost everyone got affected by the COVID-19. Apart from the loss of human lives and the degradation of the emotional and social well-being of individuals, no doubt, there is a significant impact on the economy. Small old businesses suffered a lot because of the lockdown type situation all around the world because they till yet didn’t digitalize their business.

Image from Unsplash, Depiciting Digital Business

Several known people during this time asked me the easy and quick path to set up a website. Some of them aren’t sure that they will pursue the online presence of their business when things get back to normal, but right now, they need a quick setup. In the era of cloud computing, it’s straightforward to set up a website, but still creating an account on a cloud platform and giving them a credit card details resisting them to move further. Thanks to GitHub, there is an easy way and quite popular among people who know about GitHub. In this writeup, we will explore the easiest and quick free option available to set up the digital identity of a business. I am writing this post considering you as a newbie like John Snow(who knows nothing), we will be covering the following points.

  • The first and utmost importance is a step-by-step guide to set up a working sample website.

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Abhishek Sharma
SparseCode

Code Monkey 🐒, Data Architect, Streaming Solutions, Distributed Systems, Kubernetes & Coder at SparseCode.io, github.com/abhioncbr