Visual Studio Code

After setting up your Hugo site for the first time, next thing to do is to customize it to your own liking. One of the more common things you have to do is to change some of the styling (CSS). Here’s how to do it. Note: I use Visual Studio code (VS Code). My IDE of choice. All steps below were executed from VSC. Should be doable as well from a different IDE.

Prerequisites 1. You should have a Cloudflare account If you don’t have one, it’s easy to register and it’s free to start. It does a have paid premium service but all of the Cloudflare services that we’ll use below are all free. 2. You should have already installed Hugo on your machine Try to get the latest Hugo release. If you haven’t installed Hugo yet, check Hugo’s quick start guide to get started.