1---
2title: Installation
3weight: 15
4---
5
6The following steps are here to help you initialize your new website. If you don't know Hugo at all, we strongly suggest you to train by following this [great documentation for beginners](https://gohugo.io/overview/quickstart/).
7
8## Create your project
9
10Hugo provides a `new` command to create a new website.
11
12```
13hugo new site <new_project>
14```
15
16## Install the theme
17
18Install the **Hugo-theme-learn** theme by following [this documentation](https://gohugo.io/themes/installing/)
19
20The theme's repository is: https://github.com/matcornic/hugo-theme-learn.git
21
22Alternatively, you can [download the theme as .zip](https://github.com/matcornic/hugo-theme-learn/archive/master.zip) file and extract it in the themes directory
23
24## Basic configuration
25
26When building the website, you can set a theme by using `--theme` option. We suggest you to edit your configuration file and set the theme by default. By the way, add requirements for search functionnality to be enabled.
27
28```toml
29# Change the default theme to be use when building the site with Hugo
30theme = "hugo-theme-learn"
31
32# For search functionnality
33[outputs]
34home = [ "HTML", "RSS", "JSON"]
35```
36
37## Create your first chapter page
38
39Chapters are pages containing other child pages. It has a special layout style and usually just contains a _chapter name_, the _title_ and a _brief abstract_ of the section.
40
41```
42### Chapter 1
43
44# Basics
45
46Discover what this Hugo theme is all about and the core-concepts behind it.
47```
48
49renders as
50
51![A Chapter](/basics/installation/images/chapter.png?classes=shadow&width=60%)
52
53**Hugo-theme-learn** provides archetypes to create skeletons for your website. Begin by creating your first chapter page with the following command
54
55```
56hugo new --kind chapter basics/_index.md
57```
58
59By opening the given file, you should see the property `chapter=true` on top, meaning this page is a _chapter_.
60
61## Create your first content pages
62
63Then, create content pages inside the previous chapter. Here are two ways to create content in the chapter :
64
65```
66hugo new basics/first-content.md
67hugo new basics/second-content/_index.md
68```
69
70Feel free to edit thoses files by adding some sample content and replacing `title` value in the beginning of the files.
71
72## Launching the website locally
73
74Launch the following command:
75
76```
77hugo serve
78```
79
80Go to `http://localhost:1313`
81
82You should notice three things:
83
841. You have a left **Basics** menu, containing two submenus with names equals to `title` properties in previously created files.
852. The home page explains you to how to customize it. Follow the instructions.
863. With `hugo serve` command, the page refresh as soon as you save a file. Neat !
87
88## Build the website
89
90When your site is ready to deploy, launch the following command:
91
92```
93hugo
94```
95
96A `public` folder has been generated, containing all statics content and assets for your website. It can now be deployed on any web server !
97
98{{% notice note %}}
99This website can be automatically published and hosted with [Netlify](https://www.netlify.com/) (Read more about [Automated HUGO deployments with Netlify](https://www.netlify.com/blog/2015/07/30/hosting-hugo-on-netlifyinsanely-fast-deploys/)). Alternatively, you can use [Github pages](https://gohugo.io/hosting-and-deployment/hosting-on-github/)
100{{% /notice %}}