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Cryptocurrency is here. You should start reading about it.

Probably you have already heared about cryptocurrencies or in short “cryptos”. Crypto coins have been around for over a decade, but it’s only in recent years that they’ve gained mainstream attention. These digital currencies, also known as cryptocurrencies, are decentralized and operate on a peer-to-peer network. This means that they aren’t controlled by any central authority, such as a bank or government. One of the most well-known crypto coins is Bitcoin.

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Go and its template library

Hugo uses the excellent go html/template library for its template engine. It is an extremely lightweight engine that provides a very small amount of logic. In our experience that it is just the right amount of logic to be able to create a good static website. If you have used other template systems from different languages or frameworks you will find a lot of similarities in go templates. This document is a brief primer on using go templates.

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Creating a new theme for Hugo

Introduction This tutorial will show you how to create a simple theme in Hugo. I assume that you are familiar with HTML, the bash command line, and that you are comfortable using Markdown to format content. I’ll explain how Hugo uses templates and how you can organize your templates to create a theme. I won’t cover using CSS to style your theme. We’ll start with creating a new site with a very basic template.

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Hugo is an effective alternative for Website building

This is the summary Goto hugo releases and download the appropriate version for your os and architecture. Save it somewhere specific as we will be using it in the next step. More complete instructions are available at installing hugo

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Migrate from Jekyll to Hugo

Move static content to static Jekyll has a rule that any directory not starting with _ will be copied as-is to the _site output. Hugo keeps all static content under static. You should therefore move it all there. With Jekyll, something that looked like ▾ <root>/ ▾ images/ logo.png should become ▾ <root>/ ▾ static/ ▾ images/ logo.png Additionally, you’ll want any files that should reside at the root (such as CNAME) to be moved to static.

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Linked post

I’m an example of a linked post in the menu. You can add other posts by adding the following line to the frontmatter: menu = "main"

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