Alrighty, I have managed to fix the issue with not having the Hugo .exe file at a location where my shell (I use CMD in Windows) can find it.

Pro Tip: Do not forget to click OK on ALL the dialogue boxes in the System Properties dialog box. Also make sure you restart your shell when testing.

Now that I have that down, I just have to is navigate to my site’s directory (for me that’s .\emem-thomas.com) and enter the following,

hugo new posts/whatever-the-post-is-named.md
REM write some stuff in the markdown file then enter the next line to build your site
hugo -D

Then the page should be done. After that, put the corresponding rendered pages onto whatever hosting space you are using. I do not think I put too much thought into my hosting site decision but Hostgator has a lot of information on Youtube and helpful guides. Plus I imagine the price was reasonable (at least it was two or three years ago when I initially subscribed…)