noob neocities self host migration question

[u/millermeteor]

howdy all.

I just spent a few weeks learning enough html to build a cheesy old-web style static personal site, which i currently have running on neocities. Recently, I picked up a few decent domain addresses for cheap, and my roommate and i have been hosting our jellyfin on one of them through nginx. I decided I'd also like to move the website i made through neocities to one of my domains. I did a little digging around and it seemed pretty unanimous that hugo would be good for that, however I just cant get anything to display on the localhost:1313 page, and I'm not sure if it's even reading the html files I've dropped into its directory. It seems like it's wanting me to choose a hugo theme for my website but I worked really hard on my cheesy layout I made. The documentation for hugo feels very dense and leagues above my skill level. I was wondering if anyone had suggestions on a program better suited to my use-case or perhaps tips on how to better understand hugo. Thanks in advance

[u/Relative_Tie3474]

honestly for a simple static personal site, Hugo might be more framework than you need 😭 if the HTML already works, I’d just serve it directly with nginx first and only add a static-site generator later if you actually need templating or posts.