[liquidmetal]

I use hugo on my personal blog at the moment. http://utkarshsinha.com/

A few things I've found interesting are:

- Getting the layout just right takes a bit of tinkering (I mean the layout, theme and include file locations - not the CSS).

- The `hugo` executable is just perfect. hugo server --watch is all you need (plus it's super fast!)

- Also, I'm not a Ruby person. I don't need a whole Ruby ecosystem working on my machine just to parse some markdown.

[kxyvr]

I'll second these comments about Hugo. I use it with my business website (http://www.optimojoe.com/) and have been extremely happy. As a couple more comments:

- Grab the repo https://github.com/spf13/hugoThemes and flip through the themes. Personally, I don't keep the repository in my Hugo project, but just have a soft link to the base directory. Then, the command `hugo server --theme=MyThemeHere`, let's me instantly see what my website looks like under a new theme.

- The ruby gem s3_website (https://github.com/laurilehmijoki/s3_website) lets me update my Amazon hosted website instantly. Basically, I just run `rm -rf ./public && hugo && s3_website push` after adding a new page and I'm done.

- In any case, like liquidmetal, I'm not a Ruby person, but I was able to easily modify the themes into something that worked well for me. I started using Hugo after running through the other popular static site generators and found Hugo the easiest to get up and running and maintain.

[srwx]

Likewise but I use gulp and the awspublish plugin to get things to S3. This way I can easily push a non-minified non-ulgified version to a staging s3 bucket to test/debug and then a minified, uglified, gzipped, long cacheTime version to my 'production' bucket when I'm happy (which also uses Cloudfront mostly just for the SSL).

[lukebennett]

Useful insight, thanks. Heads up your business website has an invalid link - "Products" is missing a slash and currently points to http://www.optimojoe.comproducts

[kxyvr]

Thanks for tip on the links! I screwed up my front page template, but it should be fixed and percolating through CloudFront. Thanks again!