Welcome to the Mainroad theme documentation. This quick start guide covers Mainroad theme installation and minimal configuration and is intended for intermediate to advanced users. To understand this guide, you need to be familiar with the Hugo static site generator.

Customization page describes common Mainroad configuration parameters which can be specified via configuration file or via Front Matter section. That includes logo section tuning, adding a sidebar with widgets, adjusting highlight color, and more.

Browse this FAQ page to find answers to frequently asked questions that have not been covered elsewhere in the documentation.

The main purpose of this article is to make sure that all basic HTML Elements are decorated with CSS so as to not miss any possible elements when creating new themes for Hugo.

Hugo uses the excellent Go html/template library for its template engine. It is an extremely lightweight engine that provides a very small amount of logic. In our experience that it is just the right amount of logic to be able to create a good static website. If you have used other template systems from different languages or frameworks you will find a lot of similarities in Go templates.

Step 1. Install Hugo Go to Hugo releases and download the appropriate version for your OS and architecture. Save it somewhere specific as we will be using it in the next step. More complete instructions are available at Install Hugo Step 2. Build the Docs Hugo has its own example site which happens to also be the documentation site you are reading right now. Follow the following steps: Clone the Hugo repository Go into the repo Run hugo in server mode and build the docs Open your browser to http://localhost:1313 Corresponding pseudo commands: