I created this template as a quick and easy way for job market candidates to set up their website. It is a stripped down version of the Hugo Academic template. For full features of this template, see its documentation.

The colours come from McGill's visual identity guide.

Here's the demo.

• On GitHub, fork this repo
• On Netlify
  • Sign up with your GitHub account
  • Create a new site, using the repo you just forked. Your website is now live!
  • Get your own domain, either from Netlify or from another provider. See details here

• Clone your repo to work on it locally

git clone [email protected]:$YourGitHubUsername/McHugo.git
cd ./McHugo

• Change the website info in ./config/_default/config.yaml

• Update relevant info (SEO, initials) in ./config/params.yaml

• Change the contents in ./content/

• Add linked files to ./static/files/

• Add your profile picture to ./content/authors/default/avatar.jpg

• Copy this image to ./assets/media/sharing.jpg for it to show up in search engines

• Pushing updates to GitHub will automatically trigger Netlify to rebuild your website

git add .
git commit -am 'Updated content XYZ'

• See instructions for installing Go and Hugo. On MacOS with homebrew:

brew update
brew install go hugo

• To preview your site locally, run

hugo server

• To get more advanced features (e.g.: view draft website on netlify, debug serverless Lambda functions), check out the Netlify CLI