# Where to start?

**URL:** <https://community.cloudcannon.com/t/where-to-start/255>\
**Category:** General\
**Tags:** hugo\
**Created:** [July 3, 2025, 1:53am UTC](https://community.cloudcannon.com/t/where-to-start/255 "2025-07-03T01:53:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dan\_Sullivan](https://community.cloudcannon.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/58f4c7/32.png) [@Dan\_Sullivan](https://community.cloudcannon.com/u/Dan_Sullivan)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2025, 1:53am UTC](https://community.cloudcannon.com/t/where-to-start/255/1 "2025-07-03T01:53:17Z")

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Hi all. Thanks for checking this post -  
I do marketing for small businesses and I want to learn how to build sites with Cloudcannon and Hugo (based on research not experience). I have a local GitDesktop site, a flagged Github account and a broken domain… Yeah!!!

Could you point me to any starter into/tutorials? I feel like I’m trying to break into a club without the password and my learn-by-failure method is slowing. Thanks!

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**Author:** ![Tom\_Richardson](https://community.cloudcannon.com/user_avatar/community.cloudcannon.com/tom_richardson/32/194_2.png) [@Tom\_Richardson](https://community.cloudcannon.com/u/Tom_Richardson)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2025, 4:07am UTC](https://community.cloudcannon.com/t/where-to-start/255/2 "2025-07-03T04:07:15Z")

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Hey Dan,

Welcome to CloudCannon! Here are some resources you might find helpful:

- [Hugo starter guide](https://cloudcannon.com/documentation/guides/hugo-starter-guide/)
- Using [Bookshop](https://cloudcannon.com/documentation/articles/visual-data-previews-with-bookshop/) for live visual previews when editing in CloudCannon
- [Hugo Bookshop documentation](https://github.com/CloudCannon/bookshop/blob/main/guides/hugo.adoc)
- [Our templates page](https://cloudcannon.com/templates/) (filter by SSG and select Hugo). We’ve recently released a [Hugo Starter template](https://cloudcannon.com/templates/hugo-starter/) which might help to get going. Or you can select one of our more complete Hugo templates on that page if you want something that’s a bit more ready to go out of the box.

Also feel free to [book a demo call with me](https://calendly.com/tom-cloudcannon/) to help get you started, or flick me an email ([tom@cloudcannon.com](mailto:tom@cloudcannon.com)).

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**Author:** ![Joost\_van\_der\_Schee](https://community.cloudcannon.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/8491ac/32.png) [@Joost\_van\_der\_Schee](https://community.cloudcannon.com/u/Joost_van_der_Schee)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2025, 11:49am UTC](https://community.cloudcannon.com/t/where-to-start/255/3 "2025-07-10T11:49:50Z")

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These are the basics of Hugo:

> **[Getting started](https://hugocodex.org/getting-started/)**
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> This is a lesson series that shows you how Hugo works from scratch (pun intended). This means that you will start with absolutely nothing and build your way to a full-fledged website. Lessons are short simple to follow. The lessons teach limited...