title: Modify index.html in hugo
body: <p>I'm just getting started in the hugo quickstart tutorial.</p>
  
  <p>Looking <a href="https://gohugo.io/content-management/organization/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a>, it suggests I ought to be able to modify the home/default/root index.html by creating an _index.md file.</p>
  
  <pre><code>$ hugo new site quickstart
  Congratulations! Your new Hugo site is created in ~/quickstart.
  
  Just a few more steps and you're ready to go:
  
  1. Download a theme into the same-named folder.
     Choose a theme from https://themes.gohugo.io/, or
     create your own with the "hugo new theme &lt;THEMENAME&gt;" command.
  2. Perhaps you want to add some content. You can add single files
     with "hugo new &lt;SECTIONNAME&gt;/&lt;FILENAME&gt;.&lt;FORMAT&gt;".
  3. Start the built-in live server via "hugo server".
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Ok, let's try to modify the home page!</p>
  
  <pre><code>[~/quickstart]$ hugo new index.md
  [~/quickstart/content/index.md created
  
  [~/quickstart]$ hugo new _index.md
  [~/quickstart/content/_index.md created
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I've edited both of those, to the effect of:</p>
  
  <pre><code>---
  title: "Welcome"
  date: 2017-10-13T20:31:39-05:00
  draft: false
  ---
  
  # This is a website!
  
  Why nothing appears?
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But when I run</p>
  
  <pre><code>[~/quickstart]$ hugo server -D
  Started building sites ...
  
  Built site for language en:
  0 draft content
  0 future content
  0 expired content
  1 regular pages created
  6 other pages created
  0 non-page files copied
  0 paginator pages created
  0 tags created
  0 categories created
  total in 5 ms
  Watching for changes in ~/quickstart/{data,content,layouts,static}
  Serving pages from memory
  Web Server is available at http://localhost:1313/ (bind address 127.0.0.1)
  Press Ctrl+C to stop
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I see this, no content:</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/4jl95.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/4jl95.png" alt="Blank screen"></a></p>
  
  <p>Is there anything else I need to do?  A build or markdown or render step or something?</p>