Overview

The Hugo Serif Theme is a modern business theme designed for the Hugo framework. It offers multiple content types and pages, with a fully responsive design and beautiful illustrations. This theme is optimized for speed and SEO, achieving top scores in Google Lighthouse. It also provides customization options for fonts, colors, meta tags, and Google Analytics integration.

Features

• Content Types: Services (Markdown), Team (Markdown), Features (Data)
• CSS: SCSS (Hugo Pipelines)
• Fully Responsive design utilizing the Bootstrap 4 grid and media queries
• Customizable Google fonts and primary theme colors from the config.toml
• Speed optimization with a 100/100 Google Lighthouse speed score
• Lightweight with a size under 50KB without images or 80KB with images and illustrations
• Minimal use of JavaScript, with only a small amount for the mobile menu
• SEO optimization with a 100/100 Google Lighthouse SEO score
• Google Analytics integration with configuration options in config.toml
• Customizable meta tags and Open Graph meta tags for the homepage
• Ability to override meta tags on a per-page basis
• Semantic HTML document structure
• Responsive menu management in config.toml
• Animated hamburger menu for mobile
• Robust example content included
• Royalty-free illustrations included
• Customization examples for range, loops, and data content
• Ability to inject JavaScript files on a per-page basis
• Set body classes from individual layouts for CSS styling
• Support for Hugo custom layouts

Installation

To use the Hugo Serif Theme, follow these steps:

1. Install Hugo: Make sure you have Hugo installed on your system. Please refer to the official installation guide for instructions. Note that the Hugo Extended version is required for this theme to work properly.

2. Create a new Hugo site: Use the hugo new command to create a fresh Hugo site in a new folder. For example:

   hugo new mynewsite
   

3. Install the theme: Download or clone the Hugo Serif Theme repository and place it in the themes folder of your Hugo site. The folder structure should be as follows:

   mynewsite/
   └── themes/
       └── hugo-serif-theme/
   

4. Copy the example content: Copy the entire contents of the exampleSite folder from hugo-serif-theme into the root folder of your Hugo site (mynewsite). This will provide you with example content that can be customized to fit your needs.

   Note: When copying the files, make sure to merge the contents of the static and content folders instead of replacing them.

5. Customize the theme: Open the config.toml file in your Hugo site’s root folder and modify the settings according to your preferences. You can change the fonts, colors, meta tags, and configure Google Analytics integration here.

6. Run Hugo: Start the Hugo server and preview your site locally using the following command:

   hugo server -D
   

   Your site will be available at http://localhost:1313/. You can now customize the content, layouts, and styles of your site based on the example content provided.

Summary

The Hugo Serif Theme is a modern and responsive business theme designed for the Hugo framework. It offers a wide range of features, including multiple content types, customization options, speed optimization, SEO optimization, and Google Analytics integration. With its intuitive installation process and example content, this theme provides users with a solid foundation for creating professional and visually appealing websites.