Build Your Personal Website from Scratch
English 中文 This guide is written for people with zero programming experience. If you can type and click a mouse, you can follow along. The whole process takes about one afternoon. Overview: What Are We Building? End goal: a website at your own domain (e.g. www.yourname.com), hosted on GitHub Pages, completely free (except the domain itself, ~$10–15/year). The tech stack is simple: Component Role Cost Domain (Namecheap / Squarespace) Your web address ~$10–15/yr Hugo Static site generator Free PaperMod Hugo theme Free GitHub + GitHub Pages Code hosting + site hosting Free VS Code + Cline + AI API Your AI programming assistant API usage, negligible You do not need to write code yourself — the AI writes it for you. Your role is more like a “project manager”: describe what you want, and the AI executes. ...