How I Rebuilt My Personal Site with Hugo

My old site was a single index.html Bootstrap page. No blog, no easy way to add projects, and the resume lived in a completely separate repo. It worked but it was a pain to maintain. So I rebuilt it with Hugo. Here’s how I did it — and how you can do the same. What is Hugo Hugo is a static site generator written in Go. You write content in markdown, define layouts in HTML templates, and Hugo compiles everything into a folder of static files ready to be served from anywhere — GitHub Pages, Netlify, S3, whatever you want. ...

May 14, 2026 · 5 min · Caner Türkmen