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+date: 2013-07-01
+linktitle: Introduction
+menu:
+  main:
+    parent: getting started
+next: /overview/quickstart
+title: Introduction to Hugo
+weight: 5
+---
+
+## What is Hugo?
+
+Hugo is a general-purpose website framework. Technically speaking, Hugo is
+a static site generator. This means that, unlike systems like WordPress,
+Ghost and Drupal, which run on your web server expensively building a page
+every time a visitor requests one, Hugo does the building when you create
+your content. Since websites are viewed far more often then they are
+edited, Hugo is optimized for website viewing while providing a great
+writing experience.
+
+Sites built with Hugo are extremely fast and very secure. Hugo sites can
+be hosted anywhere, including Heroku, GoDaddy, GitHub Pages, Amazon S3
+and CloudFront, and work well with CDNs. Hugo sites run without dependencies
+on expensive runtimes like Ruby, Python or PHP and without dependencies
+on any databases.
+
+We think of Hugo as the ideal website creation tool. With nearly instant
+build times and the ability to rebuild whenever a change is made, Hugo
+provides a very fast feedback loop. This is essential when you are
+designing websites, but also very useful when creating content.
+
+## What does Hugo do?
+
+In technical terms, Hugo takes a source directory of Markdown files and
+templates and uses these as input to create a complete website.
+
+Hugo boasts the following features:
+
+### General
+
+  * Extremely fast build times (~1 ms per page)
+  * Completely cross platform: Runs on Mac OS X, Linux and Windows
+  * Easy [installation](/overview/installing)
+  * Render changes [on the fly](/overview/usage) with [live reload](/extras/livereload) as you develop
+  * Complete theme support
+  * Host your site anywhere
+
+### Organization
+
+  * Straightforward [organization](/content/organization)
+  * Support for [website sections](/content/sections)
+  * Completely customizable [URLs](/extras/urls)
+  * Support for configurable [taxonomies](/indexes/overview) which includes categories and tags.  Create your own custom organization of content
+  * Ability to [sort content](/content/ordering) as you desire
+  * Automatic [table of contents](/extras/toc) generation
+  * Dynamic menu creation
+  * [Pretty URLs](/extras/urls) support
+  * [Permalink](/extras/permalinks) pattern support
+  * [Aliases](/extras/aliases) (redirects)
+
+### Content
+
+  * Content written in [Markdown](/content/example)
+  * Support for TOML, YAML and JSON metadata in [frontmatter](/content/front-matter)
+  * Completely [customizable homepage](/layout/homepage)
+  * Support for multiple [content types](/content/types)
+  * Automatic and user defined [summaries](/content/summaries)
+  * [Shortcodes](/extras/shortcodes) to enable rich content inside of Markdown
+  * ["Minutes to Read"](/layout/variables) functionality
+  * ["Wordcount"](/layout/variables) functionality
+
+### Additional Features
+
+  * Integrated Disqus comment support
+  * Automatic [RSS](/layout/rss) creation
+  * Support for Go and [Amber](https://github.com/eknkc/amber) templates
+  * Syntax [highlighting](/extras/highlighting) powered by pygments
+
+See what's coming next in the [roadmap](/meta/roadmap).
+
+## Who should use Hugo?
+
+Hugo is for people that prefer writing in a text editor over
+a browser.
+
+Hugo is for people who want to hand code their own website without
+worrying about setting up complicated runtimes, dependencies and
+databases.
+
+Hugo is for people building a blog, company site, portfolio, tumblog,
+documentation, single page site or a site with thousands of
+pages.
+
+## Why did you write Hugo?
+
+I wrote Hugo ultimately for a few reasons. First, I was disappointed with
+WordPress, my then website solution. It rendered slowly. I couldn't create
+content as efficiently as I wanted to and needed to be online to write
+posts. The constant security updates and the horror stories of people's
+hacked blogs. I hated how content was written in HTML instead of the much
+simpler Markdown. Overall, I felt like it got in my way more than it helped
+me from writing great content.
+
+I looked at existing static site generators like Jekyll, Middleman and nanoc.
+All had complicated dependencies to install and took far longer to render
+my blog with hundreds of posts than I felt was acceptable. I wanted
+a framework to be able to get rapid feedback while making changes to the
+templates, and the 5+-minute render times was just too slow. In general,
+they were also very blog minded and didn't have the ability to have
+different content types and flexible URLs.
+
+I wanted to develop a fast and full-featured website framework without
+dependencies. The Go language seemed to have all of the features I needed
+in a language. I began developing Hugo in Go and fell in love with the
+language. I hope you will enjoy using (and contributing to) Hugo as much
+as I have writing it.
+
+## Next Steps
+
+ * [Install Hugo](/overview/installing)
+ * [Quick start](/overview/quickstart)
+ * [Join the Mailing List](/community/mailing-list)
+ * [Star us on GitHub](http://github.com/spf13/hugo)
+ * [Discussion Forum](http://discuss.gohugo.io)
+