How to create a nice looking website for your game that is reasonably low effort and cost

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GitHub Pages

GitHub Pages has its own quick start guide. Following this will generate a basic "hello world" html website. The website can be viewed at https://{{your-github-username}}.github.io. By default, GitHub will serve the website from the base directory. Serving from the base directory means we can't place our Hugo project into this repo. But we can change some settings so that this repo both stores the Hugo project and serves the static web files.

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Hugo

Hugo is a static site generator. Hugo allows the developer to write website content in (easy to write and understand) Markdown files then converts that content into static html and css. Static in this sense means we lost the ability to create server side scripts or processes. For most gamedevs promoting their game, this is a completely reasonable trade off.

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GitHub

GitHub is a website that allows devs to store and manage code with the source control tool git. If you aren't using version control, even if you are a solo dev, this is my plea for you to start. They also have a pretty cool feature called GitHub Pages, that allows a GitHub repo to host a website for free. The catch? It will only host client side static web files, ie html, css, js.

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Grav

As an alternative to a static site with Hugo you can use grav for dynamic sites. Can't use it with GitHub pages, of course, but it does allow you to add searches and such to your site, while still writing your content in markdown files.

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