Welcome to the Explore theme for Hugo! This guide will walk you through the steps to get your site up and running with this theme. Whether you’re new to Hugo or an experienced user, you’ll find everything you need to get started.
Prerequisites Before we begin, you need to have Git installed on your machine to manage the theme as a submodule.
Step 1: Install Hugo If you don’t have Hugo installed, …
Explore is a minimal, text-heavy theme for Hugo, designed for academic sites, personal blogs, and essays. It prioritizes readability, performance, accessibility, and maintainability.
“Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.”
– William Morris
Features Performance & Security Subresource Integrity (SRI): All generated CSS and JS include integrity …
This post showcases the styling of all basic Markdown elements, which can be used to format your content.
Headings The following are the six levels of headings available. Although, If you ever have to reach heading 6, you are doing something serious or funny. Or something seriously funny!
Heading 1 Heading 2 Heading 3 Heading 4 Heading 5 Heading 6 Paragraphs and Text Styles This is a standard …
One of the quiet pleasures of setting up a new site is choosing how it looks. Not the content — that comes later, and is a different kind of pleasure — but the typeface, the colors, the width of the column. The small decisions that determine whether a page feels like a well-set book or a photocopied handout.
“The details are not the details. They make the design.”
– Charles Eames
Explore gives …
This post is its own demonstration. Every interactive feature described below is active right now, on this page. Scroll, click, hover — the best way to understand these features is to use them.
“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”
– Confucius (attributed)
Reading Progress Bar Look at the very top of your browser window. There’s a thin colored bar stretching across …
