/tags/pages/Recent content in Pages onHugoenWed, 05 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000/2018/09/hosting-on-gitlab-pages/Wed, 05 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000/2018/09/hosting-on-gitlab-pages/<p>I love using GitLab for all of my source control needs. You can imagine how happy I was to discover that the same service could be used to create a simple website for a project portfolio. Here is the short process needed to get your own static website up and running.</p> <!-- more --> <h2 id="setting-up-your-gitlab-repository">Setting up your GitLab repository</h2> <p>The first step to host a website from a git repository is to of course create the repository. If you do no have a custom domain name, then you can name the repository based on your user name to have a nicer URL than your typical repository will allow. For example, the repository for my nwneisen gitlab user would be:</p>/2018/08/creating-a-hugo-website/Mon, 27 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000/2018/08/creating-a-hugo-website/<p>When my sister first asked me for help with her website, I didn&rsquo;t have much to say. I was going to school for embedded engineering and web development was a completely different beast. I looked through her server at the code but I could tell most of it was generated using tools in which I hadn&rsquo;t used anything remotely similar. I wasn&rsquo;t much able to help much but I got an idea of the issue she was running into with her site: speed, nonresponsive, and expensive.</p>