nicolesiggins.com

This is the source code for nicolesiggins.com, a personal website built with Hugo and the Congo theme, using Hugo Modules and deployed via GitHub Actions to GitHub Pages.

Local Development

Make sure you have Hugo Extended installed.

This site is built with Hugo version:

hugo v0.123.8-5fed9c591b694f314e5939548e11cc3dcb79a79c+extended darwin/amd64 BuildDate=2024-03-07T13:14:42Z VendorInfo=gohugoio

To preview the site locally:

Clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/nicolelaine/nicolesiggins.com.git
cd nicolesiggins.com

Fetch Hugo module dependencies

hugo mod tidy

Start the local server

./serve.sh

Or manually run

hugo server --baseURL http://localhost:1313/

Deployment

This site is automatically deployed to GitHub Pages using a GitHub Actions workflow.

Deployment steps:

Push to the main branch.

GitHub Actions runs hugo and deploys the output in the /public/ folder to the gh-pages branch.

The live site is available at: https://www.nicolesiggins.com

Repository Structure

Folder/File	Description
config/_default/	Hugo site configuration files (config.toml, etc.)
content/	Website's markdown content
layouts/	Custom templates and overrides
static/	Static assets (files, etc)
assets/	Processed assets
archetypes/	Contains content templates for new pages or posts
serve.sh	Helper script to run the site locally
CNAME	Stores the custom domain
.gitignore	Everything not pushed to Git/Github
go.mod, go.sum	Hugo Modules configuration
.github/workflows/	GitHub Actions deployment setup

Housekeeping

The public/ and resources folders are not committed — they are regenerated automatically. Unused folders like i18n/, data/, and themes/ were removed for clarity.

Credits

Theme: Congo by @jpanther Built with Hugo