HUGO The world’s fastest framework for building websites Hugo is one of the most popular open-source static site generators. With its amazing speed and flexibility, Hugo makes building websites fun again. Installing on Windows Assumptions We’ll call your website example.com for the purpose of this tutorial. You will use C:\Hugo\Sites as the starting point for your site. You will use C:\Hugo\bin to store executable files. Setup Your Directories You’ll need a place to store the Hugo executable, your content (the files that you build), and the generated files (the HTML that Hugo builds for you).